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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: "UK NATIONAL LOTTO PROMOTION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jwrightcoleclaim@netbusiness.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:41:50 +0100
Subject: CLAIM YOUR $1.5M WINNING PRIZE

FROM THE PROMOTION'S COORDINATOR,
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION
101 WIGMORE ST, LONDON, W1U 1QU, UK

Dear Grand Award Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of The UK National Lottery Promotion that was held on the 20th of August 2009. It is also our pleasure to inform you that your EMAIL ADDRESS has emerged as one of the seventeen (17) lucky winners from the online version of the UK National Lottery Program. The winners email addresses were worldwide extracted from over 100,000 emails Worldwide as Part of our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually while the email addresses of the Lucky Winners for this online lotto version were selected randomly through the computer ballot system pending the verification of the winners' eligibility.

After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only seventeen- (17) lucky emails were emerged winners and therefore both are to receive payouts of One Million, Five Hundred Thousand-American Dollars ($US1, 500,000) each from a total cash prize of Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand-American Dollars ($US25, 500,000). Your email address is attached to REF NO. UK/72230247020/09 which subsequently won you the online lottery prize and you are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of One Million; Five Hundred Thousand-America Dollars ($US1, 500,000) only.

This online lotto program was organized by the UK National Lottery Promotion while the program was promoted and sponsored by the Microsoft Inc to improve the use of computer software, and also to encourage every user of yahoo, hotmail and Microsoft software so as to enhance the utilization of the internet Worldwide

Thus for the eligibility verification and due processing of your award won prize, contact the below fiduciary agent who is your claim agent with the filled information on the below stated requirements.

MR. JOHN WRIGHT-COLE
LIBERTY FINANCE LTD
EMAIL: jwrightcoleclaims@daytonamail.com
EMAIL: jwrightcoleclaim@netbusiness.com

You should fill the below information properly and send the filled information to the aforementioned claim agent for the said eligibility verification and due processing of your award won prize.

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR GENDER:
YOUR AGE:
YOUR OCCUPATION:
YOUR TITLE OR POSITION HELD:
YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER:
YOUR FAX NUMBER:
YOUR PHYSICAL ADDRESS:

With your database information being correctly filled and forwarded to your claim agent exactly as requested above, then the processing of your won prize will be commenced immediately while your winnings Certificate / other relevant certifications concerning the payment accreditation of your won prize shall be sent to you after proper verification and authentication of your claims information.

Finally, to avoid cases of misappropriation, mishandling and double claiming of prize monies, we advise you to please keep this process confidential until you have received your won money safely in your hands.

Congratulations to you once again from all our staffs for being lucky to be selected in our free online lottery promotional program.

At your disposal, we remain.

Sincerely,

MRS. JANET A. WILLIAMS
The Promotion's Coordinator,
UK National Lotto Promotion, United Kingdom

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