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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 Int'l" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agent_leroybanks@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:23:03 +0100
Subject: Notification!!!


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ANNUAL EDITION.

Good day, we announce to you the draw of our programs held on the 11th of September 2010 in London. Your e-mail address with drew 1536 and the lucky numbers: 04 20 21 35 39 40 28, which subsequently won you the sweepstake in this category.

You have been approved to claim a total sum of £2,400,000.00 (Two million, four hundred thousand, Great Britain Pounds) in cash credited made available from a total cash prize of £14,152,679. You were randomly selected from the online balloted version of world wide web sites through a computer drawn system extracted from over 1000,000 companies.

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To file for your claim, contact our claims agent via email, see details below;

Mr. L. Banks
Email: agent_leroybanks@hotmail.com
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Remember to quote your draw information in all correspondence. You are to keep all information away from the general public especially your draw numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Members of affiliate agencies are automatically disapproved from participating in this program.

You are hereby advised to fill the claims verification form below and send our claims department agent;

Congratulations from all members and staff.

Faithfully,

Danny Ronin, Esq.
Zone Co-ordinator.

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