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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: EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY BOARD<euro200903@live.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:06:59 -1200
Subject: Congrats!Results of our online Random ballot released

We are pleased to inform you of our final notification of this month's winners, Your ticket number 024-1112-70-663
attached to your email address,with serial number 6789-9 drew the lucky numbers 23-33-33-089(bonus no.),this lucky
number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
Your Reference number is:Euro/Millions/43250-2009 and
Batch number is: 2009/430/EML

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £850.000.00(EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS
STERLING) in and your winning check will be issued in your name after all verifications has been carried out to avoid
double claims.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through
computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions,associations and corporate bodies listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United kingdom
as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,your £850.000.00(EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS
STERLING)would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.


Your information needs to be registered in our database,please provide:Your Full Names; Full Address; Marital
status;Occupation; Age; Sex; Nationality; Country Of Residence; Telephone Number:

Yours Truly,
Sir Jason Franklin (Tel::+447031802798(24 HOURS)

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