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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: PROFWILCOX <profwilcox@brinkster.net>
Reply-To: "alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com" <alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:02:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?CONGRATULATION_YOUR_E-MAIL_HAS_WON_THE_H?=
=?utf-8?Q?ONDA_LOTTERY_PRIZE_OF_=C2=A3400,000.00_POUNDS?=




Welcome to the Honda Treasure Hunt Promo
Seasons Promotions. The
Online Consumer Promotions 2009
European Region Office:
10B Canada Square,
London HP1 8HFD,England.
Ref:475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
CONGRATULATIONS!
AWARD NOTIFICATION


We happily announce to you the draw of the Honda Lottery Promotions for the year 2009 at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by Honda. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP £400,000.00 (four hundred thousand, British Pounds Sterling). Honda Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all Email Providers most especially Yahoo and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of our lucky winners.


PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we have 3 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our UK Location Claim Office on or before your date of Claim.


Honda Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (7 days) will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:

Ticket number:00545 188 564756,
Prize # 77801209/UK,
Winning Number:4634553/N,
Serial number 5368/02
Lucky numbers: 17 98 09 67 46
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact our Customer Service
Information Headquarters (CSIHDepartment),
Barrister Usman Garba
E-mail:alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com
TEL:+447031937557
Fax:+44872647450
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Send these following informations to the CSIH Department immediately for
further procession.

ATTN: Angelo Marie S. Silva READ THE UNION BANK COMFIRMATION LETTER FOR HONDA LOTTERY AND GET BACK TO US FOR THE TRANSFER1 Full Name:..................................................

2Cellphone:.................or...Telephone:...................

3Contact Address .............................................

4Date of birth................................................

5Age...........................................................

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

7Sex............................................................

8 Marital Status...............................................

9 Country of Origin............................................

10 Winning Number..............................................

11 Serial number...............................................

12 Lucky numbers..............................................

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 ORGET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY!
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Congratulations once
again on your winnings!!!
Yours in service,
Prof. Wilcox Bruce
HONDA NOTIFICATION OFFICE
If you have questions or wish to
claim your prize money kindly contact us,alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com see the
instructions at the body of this
message.alahajiusmangarba@gmail.com

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