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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: YAHOO MESSENGER LOTTERY <yahoolottery_draw2010@in.com>
Reply-To: agentfrankmoore@fastwebmail.it
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 07:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU_WON_=A32=2C000=2C000=2E00_Great_Brit?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?ish_Poundsterling!!!?=





CONGRATULATIONS!!!


YOU


WON £2,000,000.00 Great British Poundsterling!!!



YAHOO
INTERNET LOTTERY INC
Barley House, Har-Road
Sutton,


Greater
London
SM1


4te 
 United
Kingdom. 

 
Dear
Sir/ma,
YAHOO
LOTTERY
WINNING
NOTIFICATION!!


Yahoo
Mail! gives members random cash prizes. Today, your e-mail account is
randomly selected as one of the "12" top Lucky winners e-mail accounts
who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you
have won a prize



money
of
Two Million Great British
Poundsterling (£2,000,000.00GBP) for


the Year 2010, Yahoo lottery
win promotions which is organized by yahoo



messenger
.com








Yahoo, collects


all the mail id's of the people that are online and offline on yahoo
messenger and
other related Networks. Among the millions that subscribe
to yahoo


messenger and other Microsoft users of msn, hotmail, altavista, gmail
and


others not mentioned here. we only select Twelve people every month
as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner
applying, we are therefore congratulating you for being one of the
people selected for this month Promotions. All participant (Winners) were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail
addresses extracted


from all the (Continents) Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania
as part of our international promotions program which is conducted
annually.






This Lottery was promoted and
sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational Global companies
in-conjunction with the United
Nations
(UN) as part of our social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where we have operational base and Multitude of subscribers
in our International Network. Further more your details(e-mail address)
falls within our EUROPEAN representative
office
in LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM, as indicated in this notice and your prize
Money
amount of £2,000,000.00GBP will be released to
you from this regional branch office in United



Kingdom.
We
hope, with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the
year (2010) high stakes of £4 Million international draw.



INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO
CLAIM YOUR PRIZE


 


KINDLY


CONTACT OUR CLAIMS DEPARTMENT CENTRE UNITED KINGDOM .



 CONTACT
PERSON: DR FRANK MOORE
( Winner's
directorate office ( EMAIL:frank.f.moore@hotmail.com
( EMAIL agentfrankmoore@fastwebmail.it
 
Official ( EMAIL:
agentfrankmoore@fastwebmail.it

 TEL:+447031882989






These are your Winning
identification numbers..





Serial


number:..........................5388/02


Draw
lucky numbers:...31-6-2613357
Ticket number:.......56475600545
188
Batch
number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto
number..........................Lwh35447
Winning
number...................Lwh09788





 


YOU
ARE KINDLY ADVISED TO FORWARD YOUR ABOVE STATED WINNING IDENTIFICATION
NUMBERS TO THE CLAIMS OFFICE FOR VERIFICATION, CLARIFICATION AND
PROCEEDING CLAIMS. 





 


Note
that as soon as you contact the claims office, the Claims Agent (Dr.
Frank Moore) will immediately commence the claims processes by given
you the online Procedures and Directives for the processing and
transfer of your prize

Money to you.
.


Congratulations once
more!!


For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
Strictly confidential from the public until your Fund is processed and
transferred to you. This is part of our Official security protocols to
avoid double claims and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel's.





Now take the next step and claim
your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
Past winners.

   
You
select how to transfer the prize money to you:




Cheque Delivery To Your Address


Bank Account Transfer




Diplomatic Means
 
   Yours Sincerely,





 


DR. LOUISE
BROWN
(PHD)


LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.


The Yahoo.com staff


Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com


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