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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: "DR.WILLIAM GERRI." <drgerriwilliam@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:46:43 +0100
Subject: ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE.

Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
London, United Kingdom
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
REF: UNL/662277460037/08.
BATCH: 2008/99319/IPD.

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam,

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE

We happily announce to you the draw (#UK08) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held TODAY. Your e-mail address
attached to Ticket Number: 023-0148-790-459, with Serial Number:- 5073-44,
Drew Lucky Numbers:- 2498755, and Bonus Ball Number:-{09} which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 6. You have therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000 (One Million Pound Sterling
Only) in cash credited to file REF NO. UNL/662277460037/08.

This is from a total cash prize of £5,000,000 shared amongst the second
five (5) lucky winners in this category. Draw (#UK08).

Jackpot £5,000,000.

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS £s PER WINNER TOTAL
Match 6 5 £1,107,042.80 £5,535,214
Match 5 plus bonus 7 £243,306 £1,703,142
Match 5 381 £2,793 £1,064,133
Match 4 26475 £88 £2,329,800
Match 3 561913 £10 £5,619,130

Additional Information Jackpot winner(s) 2 Machine used for draw MOONSTONE
Winners by Lucky Dip 216277 Ball set used 7. All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In
view of this, your £1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling Only) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our European Paying Bank; PostBank
BV in The Netherlands through the

Operations Manager.
Email: postbfinance@aol.nl
Postbank. BV.
www.postbank .nl

Also provide him with the following details too:

Full Names:
Telephone:
Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

For due processing and remittance of your prize money, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences
with your agent. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than
3weeks. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Dr William Gerri.
UK Lottery Co-ordinator.
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do



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