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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: zonalclaimsdesk01@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:21:36 -0000
Subject: INFORMATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM...2008 END OF YEAR BONANZA!!!





NATIONAL 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 20th of November 2008 and your email address

attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew

the lucky numbers 5-7-18-27-31-33 and bonus ball --29-- in the Lotto, to

check your results online click on this link http://lottery.co.uk/res/

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 taking

advantage of this program by the general public.

**************************************************

Contact Agent: Mr. Anderson Spencer

Foreign Services Directorate,

Pacifico Sistemas Informáticos GmbH & Co.

E-mail: zonalclaimsdesk@googlemail.com

zonalclaimsdesk@live.com

Phone: +44 704 579 8647,

+44 704 579 8638

Fax: +44-870 974 3683

**************************************************

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: zonalclaimsdesk@googlemail.com or telephone.



1.Full name and address.

2.Country.

3.Tel and fax number.

4.Occupation.

5.Languages Spoken.

6.Religion.

7.Any Identification.



Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being

part of our email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Julie Van Hans,

Executive (International Sweepstakes).



Program Warning!!! Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be

impersonator using our names and addresses, but are not from the NATIONAL

LOTTERY ONLINE PROGRAM PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO CUSTOMER

CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT.

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Material Copyright © 2008 The Lottery Co. Ltd.



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