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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: "Yahoo & Microsoft Yearly Promotional Draws" <yahoo_microsoft8@mailbox.hu>
Reply-To: claimsdepartmenty@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:00 +0700
Subject: Attn: Lucky Draws Winner, Reply quickly


*(AWARD DEPARTMENT)*
*124 Stockport Road, Longsight,
Manchester M60 2DB, *
*United Kingdom*
**
* *
*WINNER OF THE YAHOO AND MICROSOFT FREE INTERNET DRAWS 2008*
**
*Attn: Lucky Draws Winner,*
**
*We write to inform you that you have won a prize money of 250,000.00
British Pounds (Two hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds only) on our
TENTH FREE INTERNET NEW YEAR DRAWS 2008 held in United Kingdom, ORGANIZED
AND SPONSORRED BY YAHOO AND MICROSOFT WINDOWS. Your email address have
emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS, which is part of our yearly*
*promotional draws. The draws were held on 27th June, 2008 and results are
being officially announced today.*
*
YAHOO AND MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the email addresses of the people
from America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania
that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and
Hotmail <http://www.hotmail.com/> and few from other e-mail providers. Four
hundred (400) people are selected to benefit from this promotion every year
and you are one of the Selected Winners this year.*

*Your email address, attached to ticket number 11185973843206, with serial
number 52-67 drew the winning numbers 05 17 23 26 42 48 and consequently
won in our TENTH FREE INTERNET NEW YEAR DRAWS CATEGORY. *

*You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 250,000.00 British
Pounds (Two Hundred and Fifty thousand British Pounds), which is the
winning payout for each winners. This is from the total prize money of
100,000,000.00 Million British Pounds shared among the 400 winners in this
category.*

*CONGRATULATIONS! *

*In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names/email
address especially impersonators of any kind, we advise that you keep the
entire details of your award strictly confidential from public notice until
the process of your claims has been completed. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this programme by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. *

*To file for your claim, please, Fill the CLAIMANT FORM below and send it
back to us immediately to enable us commence with the processing of your
winning.*

<http://us.f563.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mrdenise_brown@yahoo.fr>
*CLAIMANT
FORM*

*1. Total prize value of claim (Amount won):*

*2. Claimant Full Name:*

*3. Sex:*

*4. Date of Birth:*

*5. Claimant home or office** Address:*

*6. Your Country:*

*7. Occupation:*

*8. Telephone Number:*

*9. E-mail address that won:** *

*Under penalty of law, I declare that to the best of my knowledge and
belief, the name, address and other information entered above correctly
identify the recipient of this payment; no other living person or entity is
entitled to any part of this payment; I understand it is a violation of law
for any person to intentionally or knowingly filling for double claiming or
aid another person in claiming the same prize, by means of fraud, deceit, or
misrepresentation, or to intentionally or knowingly alter or forge a ticket
number.*
**
*For our record purposes, Your Claimant Form must be verified and processed
accordingly by our processing/Award Coodinator (Mr. Druv Martindale) at the
headquarters. The Processing of your Claimant Form will be completed within
12 hours. You will receive an update once completely processed. Secondly, as
soon as we are through with the processing of your winning, your payment
data will be forwarded to our paying bank immediately so that they will
release your winning funds to you without delay.*
**
*NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and
Batch Numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every correspondences.

**REFERENCE NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
BATCH NUMBER: 2007234522

Yours Sincerely, *
**
**
*MRS. CYNTHIA OLUMIDE
Games/Lottery Coordinator*
**

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