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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: Air Agent <aagent@my.bcit.ca>
Reply-To: uklottaward23@ymail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:13:41 +0100
Subject: WINING NOTIFICATION (SONY ERICSSON E-MAIL PROMOTION)


  We are informing you that your email address was colleted by SONY ERICSSON E-MAIL PROMOTION with other ten thousand email addresses to select the best one hundred active email on line and your email address was selected as the best 34 active email with a winning number 3HK30065028 and a winning cash   £2,500.000 Great Bretish Pounds .
FOR MORE INFORMATION/CLAIMS:::::Kindly contact our financial office on email  uklottaward23@ymail.com  with the below required details
1::::Full Name=======
2::: Phone Number===
3::::Country=========
4::::Sex============
5:::ccupation======



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