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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)
Reply-To: <haribench@live.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:21:50 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear_(Winner)_Your_Email_Won**_=A3520=2C000.00_GBP?=



United Kingdom National Lottery programme2nd Floor Chiltern House, St Nicholas Court25 - 27 Castlegate, Nottingham NG1 7AR,United Kingdom.http://www.statelottery.com/
Dear Lucky Winner,
We happily announce to you the result of the State lottery draws held on Saturday,October 17 2008, Lotto 6/49 in Essex, United Kingdom. All participantswere selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws systemand extracted from over 10,000.00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9564 7560 with serial number046560 drew the winning numbers 6 7 14 16 17 27 Bonus 32. You have thereforebeen approved to claim a total sum of ?500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited
to file EAAL/9080118308/08.
To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding claim agentimmediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of
your fund.
Contact information is as follow: Mr. Harrison Bench.Email: haribench@live.com Tel +447024028719

Here are the informations needed for you to fill out:

1.Full Name:................................2.Full Address:.............................3.Marital Statue:...........................4.Occupation:...............................5.Age:.......................................6.Sex:.......................................7.Nationality:...............................8.Tel.Number:..............................9.Country Of Residence.....................

***Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask thatyou keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has beenprocessed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoiddouble claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this promotionallottery program.

Yours Sincerely,Mary Jack (Mrs.) **Customer Service**




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