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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "uk national lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: FBI DIVISION <usfbi520@q.com>
Reply-To: <fbigovusa@tlen.pl>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:45:22 +0000
Subject: Your Award Fund Has Been Recovered Contact us immediately(FBI)












ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITARY CRIMES DIVISION

FBI HEADQUARTERS IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING

935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001

DATE: 04/18/2009,

Website: www.fbi.gov


FUND BENEFICIARY



We have received a security
report from United Kingdom security unit to handle a case that is related to
your winner’s fund which was abandon in the UK bank by you.

A report was lead that your
abandon fund was claimed by on known person with the help of one of the bank
workers, your winners fund was transferred to Africa by the imposters, which we
send our delegate to go to Africa to apprehend them, with the information we
receive from our delegate today, they have apprehended the people that Stoll
your winners fund to Africa, they have been handed over to the EFCC OF NIGERIA.
And we have ordered the EFCC OF NIGERIA to send them back to the UK, so that we
will hand them over to the appropriate authority in UK to bring them to justice,
and it also come to our notice that some group of fraudulent people are
contacting you, we need your help to apprehend all of them. Because they are a
pest to the world at large.

If you are not informed,
your e-mail address was among the e-mails that won this year promo award of UK
National Lottery, that is the fund that was transferred to Africa , and it has
been recovered.

We need your urgent
responds, so that we will tell you the proper agency to contact for your winners
fund that has been recovered.

Your's Sincerely


FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller,
III

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