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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: agent mega <info_agent_mega2005@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:48:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION INTERNET PROMOTION,






UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION INTERNET PROMOTION, AOL, HOTMAIL & YAHOO ENDORSED  REGISTERS  {DIVIDEND & CLAIM DEPT} 8A Metropolitan Rd London , EC1M 5RJ. United Kingdom z
Phone: +44 7833178215
Email: awardteam001@newyork.usa.com
Email: universalbasic_education@cyberservices.com 
     
Subject: INTERNET PROMOTION     
Ref Nº: IPP/242232/CTY/07                         
Status: US$500,000.00          
Batch Nº: JT/UK/030/022C                                   
    
Notification: FINAL NOTICE     
Payment Nº: BILL-037
AWARD NOTIFICATION RESULT
    
    ATTN: WINNER  
     
We are pleased to inform you as a result of our end of the year international internet lottery promotion draw held on 7th August 2010 by computer ballot system. Your email address name attached to ballot number 3811 with serial number 23-VV drew the lucky number 11-24-38-22-23-32 which consequently won the draw in the 2nd category. Your email address name was among the (26) email addresses chosen to receive grand prize of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only) each in this section.
These email addresses were chosen out of 25,000,000 individual email addresses selected all over the world from worldwide web sites search engines and chambers of commerce brochures for this computer draw  You have been approved to receive this prize money credited to REF#: IPP/242232/CTY/07 attached to your email address name. 
This promotion is sponsored by United Nation, National Lottery, Hotmail, Yahoo, corporate organizations and eminent personalities such as Bill Gates, to create awareness of internet benefits and computer literate for encouragement of equity and aid eradication of poverty worldwide. We hope with a part of your prize, you will utilize and educate others the importance of internet use.
Remember you neither participated physically in this computer ballot draw nor did you buy any ticket for this draw, but your email name is lucky to be among the selected in this category, therefore claiming of prize are subjected to clearance process before payment .
To avert information leakage, prizes are secured with (secret codes) your payment secret code will be sent to your fiduciary clearance agent, is your duty to contact him now
Your won prize cannot be tampered until you received the whole approved money in your possession due to strict payment and insurance policy. After you received your prize money, we expect you to use some of the money to spread internet knowledge within your locality and remember to support our next promotion program.
     
Meanwhile, we have six clearance offices zoned continentally, CANADA, BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN, LONDON & AUSTRALIA,  clearance zones are picked randomly by computer, each winning number falls within any of the clearance zones, is the duty of the approved zonal clearance office to handle all clearance process to make sure bank releases won prize in time
Your prize number falls at Africa region approved clearance office in Johannesburg, South Africa, in view of this, your prize money will be released from Johannesburg: your money has been deposited in bank with insurance coverage. Your clearance agent will facilitate payment process immediately you contact him
     
     
Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask you to keep this winning number secret from public notice until your prize money processed and remitted to you; this is part of our precautions to avoid double claiming prize and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by scammers
    
    CONGRATULATIONS!!!
     
To file for your prize claim, contact the approved fiduciary agent with all these required information stated below
REF No
BATCH No
STATUS/AMOUNT
PAYMENT NUMBER
FULL NAME  AGE
JOB
COUNTRY
LOCATION
PHONE/FAX NUMBERS
EMAIL ADDRESS
     
YOUR FIDUCIARY & CLEARANCE AGENT OFFICER AT
Address: NO.81 Devilliers street Johannesburg South Africa.  
Name:  Mr. Mark Adam's
E-mail:markadams_collector@yahoo.com
E-mail: winningclaimsagent022@yahoo.com
Mobile: +27 739019640
Tel: +27788426678     
Tel:  +27 783617884   
Always quote your ref and batch numbers in every correspondence with your clearance agent
Sincerely yours 
Prof. Carl Allison
(Chairman)
                           IMPORTANT NOTICE 
     
Make sure you keep contact only with the approved clearance agent, any transaction you hold with other persons beside him is at your own risk, be aware that your paying authority will affect payment swiftly upon satisfactory report, verifications and validation provided by the clearance office prior payment in accordance with policy of organizers of this  promotion.                                 
SIMPLY REPLY TO YOUR CLEARANCE AGENT
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