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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: "IKOBO PROMO TEAM" <info@ikobo.com>
Reply-To: hatchwell_murphyclaimsagent@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:02:34 -0300
Subject: 2010 Official Selection

UK Microsoft Jackpot Lottery Notification

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of
Eight hundred and fifty thousand, Great British Pound
Sterlings (£850,000.00) for the month of January 2010
Lottery promotion which is organized by U.K MICROSOFT
CORPORATION

You are to contact the claims agent for remittance.

CLAIMS AGENT
Name: Mr.Hatchwell Murphy
Email: murphyhatchwell@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: +44702 406 9933

The selection process was carried out through random sampling
in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a
datebase of email addresses draw fron all continents
of the world

These are your identification numbers:
Batch Number:...............4583JL/WIN
Reff Number:................MSW?>56B-673GH/L
wINNING Number:.............11-48-26-34-44-34
Serial Number:..............647489

You are advice to fill and submit this form below to the
claims agent for verification and direction on how you
can claim your winning fund.

1.FULL NAMES:____2.ADDRESS___3.NATIONALITY:_____
4.SEX:___5.AGE:___6.OCCUPATION:___7.HOME TEL:___
8.MOBILE TEL:____9.STATE OF ORIGIN:___COUNTRY:__
10.YOUR FILE REF NO:_________________________

On behalf of the UK MICROSOFT I congratulate you once again!
Your faithfully,
Mr. Micheal
Co-ordinator.

LOTTERY SPONSOR Microsoft
Corporation U.K.

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