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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Fred Longman <agnt_flongman50@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:44:32 +0100
Subject:



European Champions League Lottery , UK . Route de Genève 46, Case postale. CH-1260 Nyon 2, Switzerland . Attn:Winner our claims verification information has been received. Congratulations once more from the members of staff of EUROPEAN CHAMPION LEAGUE LOTTERY. We the entire staff of EUROPEAN CHAMPION LEAGUE LOTTERY congratulate you for being one of our lucky winners in this quarterly online lottery promotion stake. You are indeed lucky because your email address won you the sum of GBP£1.5, million pounds, your e-mail was among the email accounts extracted for this program. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 300,000 companies all over the world. Below is a copy of the EUROPEAN CHAMPION LEAGUE LOTTERY PRIVACY STATEMENT, TERMS AND CONDITIONS.I want you to read through carefully and get back to me if you are okay by the terms and conditions. PRIVACY STATEMENT 1. "ECLL" as used herein refers to the EUROPEAN CHAMPION LEAGUE LOTTER
Y Sweepstakes and its organizers, including all affiliate companies, individuals and interests associated financially or otherwise with The ECL Trust Fund. 2. Winners" and "winner" herein refer to winners of the ECLL lottery in any category of any edition past, present and/or in the future. 3. Personal and winning data provided by winners to ECLL remain known ONLY to the winner and ECLL. 4a. All E-mail addresses, contact information, photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT be published or disclosed on ANY public or in any other public place or via any medium accessible to the public. 4b. All E-mail addresses, contact information, photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT be disclosed to or made available to any third party or agent. 4c.All e-mail addresses, contact information and/or personal data of winners are kept in an isolated database server protected from any external access using SSL locking on 6th level binary parse. This data is made accessible ONLY to ECLL staff dire
ctly involved with the processing of winners claims. 5. Only with the prior approval of winners shall ECLL modify the contents of the " ECLL privacy statement" and this being after the winner or winners have perused the modified document and acknowledged their consent either in writing or via any convenient but recordable electronic medium and in the presence of two witnesses. 6. This privacy statement is valid at this moment but may be changed at any time. TERMS AND CONDITIONS 1. The terms and conditions set out in this documentation are binding STRICTLY on whosoever it may concern. 2. "ECLL" as used herein refers to the EUROPEAN CHAMPION LEAGUE LOTTERY and its organizers, including all affiliate companies, individuals and interests associated financially or otherwise with the ECL Trust Fund. 3. "Winners" and "Winner" herein refer to winners of the ECLL lottery in any category of any edition past, present and/or in the future. 4. All cash prizes of winners remain the SOLE property of such and are su
bject to legal taxes applicable to the region of residence of the winner. 5. All cash prizes are NOT transferable but must be claimed by the actual winner but may be distributed at will after it has been claimed. 6. All cash prizes SHALL NOT, under any circumstance or circumstances whatsoever be used for illegal activities including but not restricted to any or all of the following: Gambling or funding of such activities relating to drug trafficking, illegal arms trade or funding of such, racism, terrorism, human trafficking and abuse, child/minor pornography, gender, sexual or religious discrimination, hate, hacking, armed robbery and related activities deemed illegal in the region of residence of the winner. 7. All cash prizes MAY ONLY be used for legal activities as applies to worldwide standards and/or the locality in which the winner resides. 8. A percentage of the cash prize, no matter how small, MUST be used by the winner for the betterment of humanity, preferably in the form of a donation or dona
tions to charity. 9. Aside from the restrictions set down in the paragraphs of this documentation, winners are free to do whatever they want with their cash prize(s). 10. Winners must be 16years and above to be eligible for claims I hope to have informed you properly and I look forward to your anticipated co-operation. Once again Congratulations Mr. Fred Longman (Remittance Officer)Tel: +44 70457 05586Fax: +44-7005-938-654 (©uefa.com 1998-2008 European Champions League Lottery) All rights reserved. (Terms of Service – Guidelines
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