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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: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31:07 -0500
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?You_have_won_=A3600,000-_Contact_your_claims_agent.?=

NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
101 BOVILL ROAD
LONDON. SE23 1EL.

Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD

WINNING NOTIFICATION
The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.
Your email account have been picked as a winner of Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling (£600,000.00) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling (£ 4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners. This results is now released to you on the 24th October 2008 and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 8-15-23-32-35-49 and bonus ball --9-- in the Lotto, participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email address users.

Your fund has been converted into a bank draft with a hardcover insurance.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your bank draft sent directly to your designated delivery address as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this program by the general public.

**************************************************
Contact Agent: Mr. David Hunter
Foreign Services Directorate,
Pacifico Sistemas Informáticos GmbH & Co.
E-mail: davidhunter1@inmail24.com
Phone: +44 703 190 2991,
Fax: +44-709 287 1637
**************************************************
You will be required to quote your lucky number,for confirmation on your winnings. All winning must be claimed not later than 3weeks after reciept of this mail. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed prize for good cause. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your assigned fiduciary Agent via email: davidhunter1@inmail24.com or telephone .
1.Full name
2.address.
3.Country.
4.Tel and fax number.
5.Occupation.
6.Languages Spoken.
7.Religion.

Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being part of our email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Regina Smith,
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
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Material Copyright © 2008 The Lottery Co. Ltd.

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