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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: Mrs. Selina Greenwood<kelvin_shore09@yahoo.it>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:49:14 +0700
Subject: Urgent information

You won $200,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Yahoo! Mail

Messenger
CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $200,000.00!

Dear Winner,

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners
accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND USD($200,000.00) for the New year Promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com this year, Kindly
visit http://lottery.yahoo.com/. Yahoo! collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo! mail, among the
millions that subscribe to msn mail, we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were
selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail



addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a Group of
somemultinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our West Africa representative office in Lagos
State Nigeria, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $200,000.00 will bereleased to you from this regional
branch office in NIGERIA.We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in
our end of year high


stakes for US$1
Million international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers:

Batch number....................... 09445 YLB
Lotto number........................ 09446 YLB
Winning number................... 09447 YLB
To begin your claims, kindly contact the Claims Manager

Mr kelvin_shore
Email: kelvin_shore09@yahoo.it
Phone: +234-8020308970
You are required to forward him with the following details:

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9. FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12. AMOUNT WON?


As soon as you contact him, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.Note: Remember you must
contact your claims manager not later than 48hours of Notification. After that all funds will be returned as
unclaimed. Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential
from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our curity protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking
advantage of this pro gramme by non-participant or unofficial

personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Selina Greenwood

LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

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