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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: "National L." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ervanhaub@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:38:49 +0800
Subject: Re: Award Notification.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER.
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
REF NUMBER: 3117849330/03.
BATCH NUMBER: 50/0112/UK.
RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION
www.national-lottery.co.uk

After a successful completion of the 2nd category draws of UK National Lottery held on the 6th of November,2010. We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,17th of November,2010, you among other two persons,winning in the second category, became a winner with the winning ticket number, 467-8943-78-090 ,which was attached to your e-mail address. Several Internet users e-mail addresses in the last ten years were extracted from the world wide web and after careful filtration yours was found valid in that it is up to date, before being used for the draws.As a winner in this 2nd category you are therefore entitled to a sum of one million dollars($1m) now available for claim.

To begin your claim process contact the claims agent;
Name: ERVAN HAUB
E-mail: ervanhaub@aol.com
Tel: (+44)703-189-2776

Your instrument of payment as well as a copy of this notification has been sent ahead to the claim agent who after verifying that you are the actual owner/user ofthe e-mail address that won the draws, shall instruct the paying bank for the release of your winning claims.

Note that the claim process is not expected to last longer than two weeks from the date of contacting the claim agent.

Accept our congratulations!

Yours sincerely,

MARK LOUIS
PROMOTIONS MANAGER
(UK National Lottery)



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