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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: "paula farias" <fariasp47@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Ismatullah Gani







Dear Gani,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($500,000) credited to file KY/W0254674679DQ, for 2010 Lottery promotion which is organized by MSW ONLINE LOTTERY PROMOTIONS INC.

MSW/YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and Gmail and other E-MAIL ADDRESSES, we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number......................YM 09102XX
Reff number.......................YM35447XX
Winning number.......YM 11 13 26 34 44 49


Firstly,we would like to give you a brief explanation or information about the MSW/Yahoo Internet Lottery. Due to the fact that you might be confused about how you won or if actually this is true. In fact, many winners have asked such questions and are cleared accordingly.

INFORMATION ABOUT INTERNET LOTTERY.

The MSW/Yahoo Lottery is an independent Internet Lotto organization that has been financially assisting people with it's intention to changing peoples life since 1998, so many people have benefited from it over the years. All Participants were selected randomly through a computer balloting system from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania.

This Lottery was jointly promoted and co-sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in England, as indicated in your coupon and your won prize will be released to you from this office.

PAYMENT ADVISE:

You are advised to urgently contact ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND(RBS), on the address below, for your payment.

RBS LONDON
203 WEMBLIN LONDON UK
Email:royalbnkscot@accountant.com
Tel:0044-203 011 7165
Fax:00 18032440266


All your information has been forwarded to the mentioned bank above, you are advised to forward a copy of your identification along with your winning numbers,to the paying bank.

Yours sincerely

Mrs.Paula Farias
TEL/FAX:0044-1414048620
Email:award2009@consultant.com

REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL TILL YOUR FUND IS REMITTED TO YOU. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY FROM THE PART OF WINNER WILL RESULT IN AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: PLEASE NOTE; That your won prize is not deductible because it was insured with an insurance company and cannot be tampered with in accordance with article 44 sub sections 144 of the yahoo Lotto Commission /Gaming Regulations as adopted on 8 May 1996 and amended on 11 October 1996 by the constitutional assembly. Therefore your won prize must be transfer in full into your bank account. Note:This office does not demand nor request any fee from any of the Yahoo Award lottery Winner, for all the winners documents are done free of charge, from Yahoo Office, only on bank transfer transaction, for all the winners are expected to remit their bank transfer charge fee.


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