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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: "McDONALD LOTTO®" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ukmd@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:31:34 +0530
Subject: Official e-Mail Notification

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McDonald's Incorporation
PO Box 1010,Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom.
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Batch: 24/00319/IPD

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you that you have won a £1,000,000 GBP British Pounds prize money from the Annual 2011 McDonald's Lottery promotion which was organized by the McDonald's Incorporation, United States in conjunction with the World Wide Web email system company's i.e Microsoft,yahoo,gmail & custom mails. A random selection was made from these company's consisting of 12(TWELVE) Winners from 6 (SIX) different Continent, These company had combined and provided a software for McDonald in which 12 ACTIVE email address was chosen. This software randomly picked all the 12 email address of different individual that are active online among millions that subscribed to Hotmail, Yahoo, G-mail and other various Windows Users, McDonald's has chosen 12 Winners through electronic balloting system without the winner applying for this award.

These are your Identification Number:-
(*) Reference Number: XYL/26510460037/05
(*) Batch Number: 24/00319/IPD
(*) Winning Number: MD/09788
(*) Lottery Held: Liverpool, United Kingdom
(*) Month Held: October 13th, 2011

To File for your claim, please contact our payment/release order officer below :-
********************************************
FORM-C®.
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Name:
Address:
Country:
Telephone Number:
Origin:
Winniing Number:
********************************************
Please contact:-
Name: Dr D. Morgan
Email: ukmd@msn.com
Foreign Payment and Release order Department,
Tel: +44-701-423-9975 Fax: +44-8712375735
********************************************
PAYMENT APPROVAL PROCESS:
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Submitted Form will be manually verified and processed by the assigned Claims Manager. The Processing of your form will be completed within the next 24 hours of receiving your LOTTERY CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM-C. You will receive an update on the status of your application once completely processed.
DENIAL OF APPLICATION:
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Please be informed that the following listed Country have been banned from participating in the lottery. South Africa, Nigeria, and if you are a resident of the listed country you cannot file claims for this lottery prize. Please delete this Notification, as your prize processing will be annulled without notice.
Once again, accept our congratulations on your prize winning. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of the THE McDonald's Lottery.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Lisa Wise
Online coordinator
(Sweepstakes International Program)
The McDonald's Incorporation
PO Box 1010,Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom.
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2010 McDONALD'S ONLINE PROMOTIONS. All rights reserved. Offer valid to winners who are at least 18 years of age. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary to claim winning prize. See web site for details. You will need to meet all of the steps to redeem as outlined in the Terms & Conditions before you can receive your promotional prizes. To receive this promotion, you must: 1) submit email and mailing address information 2) select one of the option listed for receiving prize 3) check your email inbox for "Redemption Notification" 4) follow Redemption instructions. You can unsubscribe from our promotional updates. © McD Inc ®

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