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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: <fidelity.plc@live.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:00:14 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL HAS WON. CONGRATULATIONS?.




CONGRATULATIONS!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
YAHOO LOTTERY INC

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($900,000,00) in cash credit file ref: ILP/MW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. For the month of October 2008 Lottery Promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC, HOTMAIL & WINDOWS LIVE for the Month of October 2008 bonanza.YAHOO, HOTMAIL & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of YAHOO users and WINDOWS users, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hot mail and all other E-Mail services, we only select five E-Mail Addresses every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people whose E-Mail was selected.Your name was attached toticket number, 7458222754, S171763619,Serial number, 6741137002 this batch draws the lucky numbers as follows2-17-43-47-52 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. These are your identification numbers keep it safely:Batch number.................... .905534213/255Ref number...................... .7458222754/07/07 Winning number...................2-17 -43-47-52
These numbers fall within the agent's Location file, you are requested to contact him and send your winning identification numbers to him,

Mr. Reginald Ihejiahi
Tel +2348036709627
Bank Name; Fidelity bank plc
Contact Person Mr.REGINALD IHEJIAHI
E-MAIL- fidelity.plc@live.com
Website. www,fidelitybankplc.com

You are therefore advice to send the following information to the Claims Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund. 1. Your Full Names........................2. Country....................... ...............3. State .............................. .............4. Contact Address....................... ...5. Telephone/Mobile Number............6. Marital Status........................ ......7. Gender .............................. ...........8. Occupation.................... ...............9. Age........................... ...................10.Date of Birth ..............................11.Religion .............................. ........12.E-mail .............................. ...........13 Amount Won ............................Congratulations!! Once again.Yours in service.Mrs.Joyce Chang

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