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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: mark vendatine <prom-manager223@live.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:30:01 +0000
Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?HOW_YOU_EMERGED_AS_A_WINNER=FE=FE=FE?=




The National Lottery,35 Tottenham CourtRoad London.WD1 12T. United Kingdom
Tel:+44 704 5761 885

Dear Winner ,
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. Be informed that all participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw. Your email address happen to be one of the emails chosen from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web. Participants were selected from the registered email addresses in the Public Key Server -- Index, it was drawn from a pool of over 120,000 names in this batch ,participants were taken from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted six times annually to encourage the use of Internet world wide. In order to verify your winnings, we need your particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our verifications form, please fill accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings. Once again, congratulations from all the staff of the UK National Lottery headquarter.(Form HLP)REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68FULL NAME...............................................COMPANY NAME: ...........................................FULL ADDRESS: ...........................................SEX: .................................AGE...................................OCCUPATION.............................TEL.......................FAX................. (If any)COUNTRY................................E-MAIL..................................HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE: ............. (Identification on delivery)AMOUNT WON..........................BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL: ..................................................................................................................................................................................................____________________________ ___________________ Date. Signature.
For further clarification and verification sake, kindly view our website: http://www.lottery.co.uk/Upon receipt of the duly requested data, I’ll send you the contact information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.Warm Regards,Mr Mark Vendatine.

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