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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: INTERNATIONAL YAHOO LOTTO <agent_clement_mark@yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Jan 2009 11:22:30 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON(CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT)

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS ($500,000.00) in the YEAR 2009 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch to.

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected TEN (10) candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.



PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to the AFRICA due to we have 6 lucky winners in AFRICA so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our AFRICAN Location Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim.

YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (14 days) will be forfeited.



IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF

Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF

Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

These numbers above fall within the Asia agent's Location file, you are requested to contact her and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him;



MR: CLEMENT MARK at his email:

E-mail: agent_clement_mark@yahoo.com

You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.



Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:



PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Full name..................

2. Country....................

3. Contact Address......

4. Telephone Number..

5. Marital Status.........

6. Occupation..............

7. Age..........................

8. Sex...........................

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.

Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!

You select how to transfer the prize money to you

Cheque Delivery to your address

Bank Account Transfer



KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.



NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY



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