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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: INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY <London@sa51970.com>
Reply-To: Mr_Jude_Kelvin1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:55:46 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATION, S

INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
ACCEDITED LICENSED AGENT/ INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
REF-NUMBER GWK / 7519 /059741 /05 UAD
BATCH -NUMBER: 316/117/096

DEAR LUCKY WINNER

CONGRATULATION, To you, we are pleased to inform you about the result of the
winners international lottery Brussels programs held on the 28th of
May ,your E-
mail Address attached to the ticket No:1002-563789 with serial No:X984TG,drew
from the lucky No:02-59-74-89-28,which consequently won you the lottery in the
first category, you have therefore been approve to give you a cheque of
£;500,000.00 Pounds you are one of the 100,000 people that win this lottery
worldwide. this lottery is organized by host country London
collaboration with
international companies, fund for the draws were contributed by the major
company, your cheque is now with payment/ finance department in the Barclay
Bank service London, due to the mixed up of some numbers and e-mail
addresses,
we advice that you should keep this winning information a top secret from the
public notice until your claim has been processed, this is the part of
security
protocol, to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this
program by participants.


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from the
20, 000 companies, 500,000 individual e-mail addresses from all over the world
as part of our international promotions program, which we conduct every year,
we hope that with part of your wining you will take part in our next year
lottery, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PROCESSING MANAGER, Mr. JUDE KELVIN. E-mail:
{Mr_Jude_Kelvin1@hotmail.com}Remember that all wining must be claimed their
winning prize in lass than three weeks after the date of draw, unclaimed funds
will be returned to the promotion company


NOTE: in order to avoid unnecessary delay and complication, please remember to
quote your security deposited file number and batch numbers respectively in
every correspondence with your claim/process agent Mr. Jude Kelvin, should
there be any change of your address do inform your claim agent as soon as
possible. Just incase you are thinking of how you won without entering, then
know again that this very draw of the National Lottery Organization in which
you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket on-line email address draws
where thousands of email address was collected from almost all world wide
websites and used for the on-line draws/lottery and during winners selection
your email address came out among the thousands e-mails id which won you The
Lottery in the first category and entitles you to claim the cheque of (£
5,00,000.00) five hundred thousand pounds styling .
Congratulation once again from all members of our staff and thank you
for being
part of our promotions program.

Best Regards
Barrister. Tony James
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR

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