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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: "UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION" <uklott.organization4u@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:49:39 +0400
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?You_won_=A31.600.000._UK_Lottery_Organization._Congrat?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ulation_to_your_mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?=


*Notifying you that your email address won: £1.600,000*
*UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT*.


If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as
the result of the *UK lotto online e-mail address* free-ticket winning draws
of 19th April 2008 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you
that your email address won you the *sweepstakes* in the first category and
you are entitled to claim the sum of *£1.6Million*.

Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this *Ticket Number:
APP236566301307* and won on this *Lucky Number: MX014926583*. You are to
contact *Mr. Richard Paul*. on the below email address for options on how to
receive your winnings money.

To enable *Mr. Richard Paul* ascertain you as the rightful winner and
receiver of the *£1.6Million* *MAKE SURE* you include the below listed
information in your contact mail to him.

*Y*our country of origin and country of residence/work,
*C*omplete official names address.
*C*ontact telephone and mobile numbers
*A*mount won, free ticket and lucky numbers
*D*ate of draw. OPTIONAL :- [Sex, age, occupation and job title].

*Mr. Richard Paul
Email-Address:(*richardpaul2u@googlemail.com).

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering then know
again that this very draw of the *UK Lottery Organization* in which you have
emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email address draws where
thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide
websites and used for the online *draws/sweepstakes* and during winners
selection your email address came out among the first ten which won you the
lottery in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the sum of
*£1.600,000.
*
*From: Online Winning Notification Department,
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION*

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