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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: liveworldresult1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:43:30 -0500
Subject: Draws Result !!!!


Live Promo Organosation Central Office.
Management and Central Services:
London, United Kingdom.

Live Lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
20,000,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an automated
random computer ballot search from the internet as part of our
international
promotions program which we conduct every year. No tickets were
sold.

This program is organized by the National Lottery Commision,
international lotto and
games subcommittee, endorsed by the European lottery guild in
conjunction
with NGO organizations in London.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
attached to serial
number 02-87-87 drew the lucky numbers 4-11-41-26-02-62, which
consequently
emerged you as one of first ten (10 lucky winners in the
United Kingdom
category.)

To Claims Prize Fill the Datas Below send it via Email or Fax
to
Full Name
Email Address
Home Address
Sex
Age
Occupation
Tel
Country

Information and Payment Bureau:
Help Service Contact (Mr Bruce Washburn)
E-mail : liveworldresult1@hotmail.com
Phone : +44 704 4570 9877

Mr Baker Kevin
Promotions Manager.


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