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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: "NOKIA COMMUNICATIONS" <info@nokia.com>
Reply-To: promotionofficenokiagrant101@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:59:19 -0400
Subject: NOKIA COMMUNICATIONS

NOKIA COMMUNICATIONS
1O4 NOKIA DRIVE
STAMFORD SW1V 3DW
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
NOKIA CONNECTING PEOPLE PROMOTION PROGRAMME.

We are pleased to inform you, the result of the first online promotion
program conducted by United Kingdom Nokia Communications in collaboration
with the United Kingdom CHARITY DONATION .Your email address is among the
(3) Three Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00 (One Million Great British
Pound Sterling) And a brand New BMW 550i 2009 Model each on the NOKIA
CONNECTING PEOPLE PROMOTION PROGRAMME.

You were entered as an independent candidate and your email was attached
to ticket number (NOK-1000) and ballot number (NORBA-1Q).The online draws
was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive
list of 100,000,000 E-mail addresses picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet.However, no tickets were sold but all email
addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation
and privacy.Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 10 days from date
of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize
not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over
250,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents
of the world. Please note that your lucky ticket and ballot numbers falls
within our European booklet representative (Nokia office) in The United
Kingdom. This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and
licensed by The International Association of Gaming Regulations (IAGR).

To file for your claim, please contact your Claims Agent.Furnish him with
your winners Information's as stated
below via his email address and also send to him any of your
identification copy, either your international
passport or National identity card for the processing:

WINNERS INFORMATIONS
1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS:
3. SEX:
4. AGE:
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7. TELEPHONE NO :
8. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
9. AMOUNT TO BE CLAIMED:
10.NATIONALITY.

Dr Mark Barry
Claims/Customer Service Department
United Kingdon Nokia Office
Telephone Number:+44-703-5954-359
Email:promotionofficenokiagrant101@gmail.com

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Francesca Humphrey.
(Online Coordinator)

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