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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 Lottery Organization" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <martinlee_66@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:25:28 +0100
Subject: Your email address has won you $4.6M from the UK Lotto

UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.


If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as the
result of the UK lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of 1st
Febuary 2010 held in Bangkok Thailand has just been released and we are glad to
announce to you that your email address won you the sweeptakes in the first
category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6Million

Your email address was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number:
GFEKALDHE749KE and won on this Lucky Number: 849YA39GHMWQ

You are to contact Mr.Martin Lee on the below email address for quick
delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. Know that all winners cheque are
certified cashiers and when delivered and received by you, you can cash it in
any bank of any country. To enable Mr. Martin Lee ascertain you as the rightful
winner and receiver of the $4.6Million cheque, MAKE SURE you include the below
listed information in your contact mail to him.Your country of origin and
country of residence/work, complete official names, amount won, free ticket and
lucky numbers, date of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings
cheque, contact telephone and mobile numbers. :- [Sex, age, occupation and job
title].

Mr. Martin Lee
Email-Address:martinlee_70@yahoo.co.jp

Just incase you are thinking of how you won without entering then know again
that this very draw of the UK Lottery Organization in which you have emerged as
a winner was a free ticket online email address draws where thousands of email
addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the
online draws/sweeptakes and during winners selection your email address came out
among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category
and entitles you to claim the cheque of $4,600,000.

From:Ambrose Michael
Online Winning Notification Department

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