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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 INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY <markfreedom00@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: markfreedom104@gala.net
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 03:48:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations!! Congratulations!!


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Attention: Email Account Holder,


Congratulations, congratulations! We
happily announce to you the draw (#1433) of the UK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion held in London.
 
Your active e-mail address attached to the
World Wide Web computer generated ticket number: B7607545 4139
with reference number UK/JA2C110P7 and Serial number ZA5365/3,
Batch number XA87-2PY, drew the lucky numbers:
18 23 34 44 46 48 Bonus 06
This
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6 lucky
numbers as jackpot prize.
 
You have therefore been
allocated to claim a total sum of £ 650,000.00 (Six Fifty
Thousand British Pounds) in cash is credited to file
UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of
£14,210,702.00
 Shared amongst the 572,018with (6) lucky
winners in "1st" category.

PRIZE BREAKDOWN
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw
1433 Monday 14th Dec 2009   23 34 44 46 48 bonus 06 Lotto -Jackpot
for this draw    
£2,734,854
------------------------------------------------------------

No. of
matches      No. Of winners    £s per
winner         Prize fund
Match    6                  
2                   
 £1,367,427                £2,734,854

Match 5 plus
Bonus   6                  
£140,248                   £841,488
Match
5                  209                   
£2,516                       £525,844
Match
4                13,305                 £86  
                         £1,144,230
Match
3               257,290               
£10                            £2,572,900
Totals                   
270,812                                               
£7,819,316
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Additional
information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set
used
                                      
2                               
            SAPPHIRE                                       
7
This
promotion was drawn based on email address as the key identification for setting
up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the World Wide Web Draw
used/participants for the online email promotion version were selected randomly
via computer balloting from a global website collaboration with internet
companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve, and Google whom also built their
systems and based their membership registration identity on email addresses
supporting this computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies and affiliated members to the
National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online.
This Online
promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is done
Bi-annually.
 
Please note that your lucky winning ticket
file and number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Watford (UK) as indicated in your ballot played coupon. In view of this, our
payment department would release your £ 650,000.00 to
you.
 
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release
of your lottery prize by providing details
below.
1. Full
Name:
2. Email
Address:
3.
Age/Occupation:
4. Reference
Number/Ticket Number
5. Phone
Number: 
6. Country: 

For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever choice
you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please be warned!!! To file for
your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide them with your
winning email and details. 

UK
Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mr. Mark  Freedom
Foreign Service
Manager
PO Box 200 Harrogate HG1 2YR
England
Tel: + 44
770-002-2457
E-mail: markfreedom104@gala.net

Please do
not reply back to the senders address or the source email address, this
notification is sent automatically via computer virtual notification to winning
email addresses and a response will not be attended by Human but computer"
contact the fiduciary agents above "
 
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Vanessa Cooke. Online
coordinator.
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Copyright
(c) 1994-2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
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reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline.






















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