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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:18:17 +1300
Subject: Your benefit for being a user of the world wide web(www).......Congrats!!‏

EURO/AFRICAN LOTTERY BOARD HEADQUARTERS
18 yorshire complex
Manchester,22xx34
United Kingdom.
Customer Service/Claims Department
Tel::+447031802798
(24 HOURS)
Ref: EURO/AFRICA/OCT/2008
Batch: EURO/AFRICA/42357/2008
TICKET NUMBER:4333/330

We are pleased to inform you of our final notification of this month's winners, Your ticket number 4333/330
attached to your email address,with serial number 567320-7 drew the lucky numbers 432467-10-565(bonus no.),this lucky
number subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £678,370.00 (SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND,THREE
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited
To file XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash
prize of £6,783,370. shared amongst the (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants of
this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system
and extracted from close to 125,000 unions,associations and corporate bodies listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United kingdom
as indicated in yourplay coupon. In view of this,your £678,370.00 (SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND,THREE
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS STERLING) would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact him/her via electronic mail(email) or other options made available to you.




Provide us with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.Thank you for being part of our online promotional
lottery program.


Yours Truly,
Sir Jacob Jensen
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

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