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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: winner@cglotto.org
Reply-To: cgclaimsoffice@btinternet.com
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:44:23 +0800
Subject: BATCH N=?ISO-8859-1?B?ui46?= 2008UKL-01

The Camelot Group,
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Antree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on the 2nd April 2008.
Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out
of Eight hundred and ninty-one thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four
Great Britain pounds (£891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited
to file REF NO. REF:UKL/74-A0802742008. This is from total prize money
of GBP £4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners
in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that
are listed online.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and our money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program.

Mr Sean James.
Email:deutchsolagency@btinternet.com
Tel:+447011129839
Fax +44870 478 2022

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.
Note below your winning details:
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742008
BATCH Nº.: 2008UKL-01

KINDLY FILL THE VERIFICATION FORM
FULL
NAMES:_______________Sex:____________:Age:______________Occupation_____

_____:ADDRESS:_________________City_____
_______State________________Postcode_______Country____________Tel______
__Nationality

Sincerely,
Mrs. Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,

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