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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 Internet Lottery" <info@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: mrjackbrown1@yahoo.cn
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 02:18:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Congratulations!!!




CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!


YAHOO / MSN INTERNET LOTTERY

Your Email Account was randomly selected as one of 5 top winners accounts
who will get cash prize from us. We are happy to

inform you that your Email Account has won you the Cash prize of
£200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds

Sterling) for this Month of May, 2010 for Lottery winning promotion which
is organized by Yahoo/Msn Online or internet

Lottery every month.

YAHOO / MSN, collects all the email addresses of the people that are
online all over the world among million subscribers, we

only select five people every month as our top winners through electronic
balloting System without the winner applying for

this lottery.

We are congratulating you for being one of the people selected. All
participant were selected through a computer balloting

system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,

Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which
is conducted Monthly.

This Lottery was promoted and 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 Europe representative office, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of £200,000.00 will be

released to you from any of our regional paying Office in Europe.

NOTE: All winnings MUST be claimed before 31st of May, 2010, otherwise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually

donated to charity organizations.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Below are your identification numbers;
Batch number.....................Yah09445
Lotto number.....................Yah09446
Winning number...................Yah09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact our Fiduciary agent Mr. Jack Brown

with he contact below;

Fiduciary Agent: Mr. Jack Brown
E-mail address: mrjackbrown1@yahoo.cn
Tel: +447045709845

You are required to furnish our Fiduciary agent Mr. Jack Brown with the

following details;

1. FULL NAME:
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
3. PRESENT COUNTRY:
4. SEX:
5. DATE OF BIRTH:
6. AGE:
7. OCCUPATION:
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY):
10. EMAIL ADDRESS:
11. MARITAL STATUS:


As soon as you contact him with the above details you will be advise on
how to get your prize money and you must be checking

your email constantly immediately you contact the financial agent Mr. Jack
Brown to meet up with the time you have to claim

your prize.

Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is

processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted

taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Susan Kay
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR


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