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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: "Woods, Brad E" <bwoods1@uncfsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 19:32:53 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTENTION=3AWINNER_=28YOU_HAVE_BEEN_GRANTED_THE_SUM_OF?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?_=A3500=2C000_GBP=29?=



FROM: THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
YAHOO MSN INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: YAHOO6/315116127/27
BATCH: 8254297137
Registered Lottery No 220949
(Thanks for contributing to our Financial Success)

ATTENTION:WINNER,

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of
£500,000.00 Pounds. This email promotion was held on the 31TH of
MAY 2008 in London United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch
number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which
consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay out of £500,000.00 (i.e. five Hundred Thousand
United Kingdom Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file REF:
YAHOO6/315116127/27. To file for your claims you are to contact
our REMMITANCE DIRECTOR for further information.

NAME: MR WEST NEWTON (REMMITANCE DIRECTOR)
EMAIL: west_newton12@live.co.uk <mailto:west_newton12@live.co.uk>
Tell: +44-795-516-7964
Fax: +44-870-974-6645

You are hereby advised to provide our claims department with the
following information: REF Number, Batch number, Winning Email Address.
Thereafter you will directed by your remittance officer on how to claim your prize.
YAHOO MSN PROMOTION is a free service that does not require you to
register or be a Yahoo registered user before winning. You have
received this message from Yahoo International PROMOTIONS prize dept
because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have
voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their
sponsors. Your email address was selected along side ten lucky winners
around the world who have there email voluntarily given to receive
mails from various site that we sponsor around the world.

To View Some Of Our Past Lucky Winner Click:

**http://img.timeinc.net/TFK/media/news/2006a/060222_lottery_hor.jpg
**http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/09/23/lottery-winners-inside.jpg
**http://www.louisianalottery.com/assets/images/newsroom/Lotto%20Winners/CarlosCase2.jpg
**http://www.javoue.com/presse/yahoo_javoue.jpg

Mrs.Sherrell Barber (Zonal Coordinator)
YAHOO MSN PROMOTIONS

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