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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 Award <drdavidy@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: uklotteryaward.2008@yahoo.in
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 06:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOM


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: drdavidy@yahoo.com



- We announce the winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION held on the 2nd of this month. Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to winning number MX014926583, won in the Tenth lottery category.You have been approved for lump sums pay out of US4.6 Million Dollars in cash. Selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine, from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continual use of E-mail. Your fund (Certified Cashiers C!
heque) has been insured with your winning number MX014926583. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize to you. Dr David Yong. Director of Operations and Logistics. Phone#: +44 703 592 1927 Email: (uklotteryaward.2008@yahoo.in) You are to reply to this In order to avoidunnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your winning numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number.(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained) PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO CONTACT THE CLAIMS OFFICE WITH THE BELOW INFORMATION: 1.FullName:....................................................2.Address:...............................................3.Nationality:...........................................4.Age:......................Date of Birth:...............5.Occupation:...!
.........................................6.Phone:..................Fax
:...........................7.State of Origin:..............Country:.................Sincerely, Mrs. Maurrine C. Anner. Secretary. Dr David Yong. Director of Operations and Logistics.LOTTERY SPONSOR UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.


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