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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: maurice bruce <info.payoutagentttt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:32:41 +0800
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULTS


*AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULT
CONTINENTAL LOTTERY FOUNDATION AOL,HOTMAIL,YAHOO,GMAIL
ENDORSED.
REGISTERS {DIVIDEND & CLAIM DEPT}
29 Belleview Rd London , SW1P 3PA . United Kingdom .08Subject: INTERNET
PROMOTION
Ref No: UBE/212327/PT/
Status: $ 750,000.00
Batch No: UK/ITT/030/011C
Payment No: GHC-088*

*ATTN: BENEFICIALY*
*We are pleased to inform you as a result of our recent international
internet lottery promotion draw held on 24TH October 2008 by computer
ballot system. Your email address attached to ballot number 3910 with
serial number 22-PII drew the lucky number 10-21-39-23-22-27 which
consequently won the draw in the 3rd category. Your email address was among
the (10) email addresses chosen to receive grand prize of US$750, 000.00
(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) each in this section. These
email addresses were chosen out of 7.500,000, individual email
addresses selected all over the world from worldwide web sites search
engines
and chambers of commerce brochures for this computer draw.*
*You have been approved to receive this prize money credited Ref
No: UBE/212327/PT,attached to your email address,this is from a total
prize of US$7.500,000(Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand USD) shared
among the 10 International winners in this category. This promotion is
sponsored by United Nation, National Lottery, Hotmail, Yahoo, corporate
organizations and eminent personalities such as Bill Gates, to create
awareness of internet benefits and computer literate for encouragement of
equity and aid eradication of poverty worldwide. We hope with a part
of your prize, you will utilize and educate others the importance of
internet use.*
*Remember you neither participated physically in this computer ballot
draw nor did you buy any ticket for this draw, your email is lucky to be
among the selected in this category, therefore claiming of prize are
subjected to clearance process before payment . To avert information
leakage, prizes are secured with (secret codes) your payment secret code
will be sent to your fiduciary clearance agent, it is your duty to
contact him now.*
**
*Your won prize cannot be deducted, simply because this is a promotional
award, until prize is released to you. Due to strict insurance policy.
After you have received your money, we expect you to use some of the
money to spread internet knowledge within your locality and remember to
support our next promotion. We have seven clearance offices zoned
continentally, CANADA,CHINA, USA, SOUTH AFRICA, BURKINA FASO, LONDON &
SPAIN, clearance zones are picked randomly by computer, each winning number
falls within any of the clearance zones, it is the duty of the
approved zonal clearance officer to handle all clearance process to make
sure
bank releases won prize in time.*
*Your prize number falls within Asia region clearance office in
Guangzhou,China .In view of this, your prize will be released from China ;
your
money has been deposited in bank with insurance coverage. Your
clearance agent will facilitate payment process
immediately you contact him.Two Payment Options:
(a)Bank Transfer (b) (Mastercard ATM) Due to the mixed up of some
numbers and names, we ask you to keep this
winning news secret from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your prize money remitted to you; this is part of our
precautions to avoid double claiming of prize and unwarranted taking
advantage
of this program by scammers.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To file for your prize claim, make sure you contacted Approved
fiduciary agent with all these required information stated below:*
**
*REF No:
BATCH No:
STATUS/AMOUNT:
FULL NAME:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY/CITY:
TEL/FAX NUMBERS:
PAYMENT NUMBER:
YOUR FIDUCIARY & CLEARANCE AGENT AT:
9TH FLOOR,
LING QUANG GARDEN ,GUANGHZUO,
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA .*

*MR Maurice Bruce
Tel:+8613143750373
Email:info.payoutagent@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Mr.Kim Totti
Correspondent Agent.*
*IMPORTANT NOTICE
Make sure you keep contact only with the approved clearance agent, any
transaction you hold with other persons beside him is at your own risk,
be aware that your paying authority will affect payment swiftly upon
satisfactory report, verifications and validation provided by the
clearance office must be prior in accordance with policy of
organizers/European and Asian gaming board*

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