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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 Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uklottocentre@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:11:53 +0200
Subject: Hello

The National Lottery
P O Box 1290
London, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
Ref: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345

REPLY to uklottocentre@gmail.com

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to notify you the draw (#1078) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on December 2011
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from
Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions
programme conducted twice in a week to encourage prospective overseas entries.The internet emailing idea was used, since most people who are not
able to purchase tickets can play outside the UK. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw (#1078) selected your name and email address attached to e-ticket number: 600475612545 187 with Serial number
5300/07 drew the lucky numbers: 1-2-3-5-10-11(Bonus Ball 26) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. Match 6. You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £763,392 (Seven Hundred And Sixty Three Thousand, Three Hundred And Ninety Two Great Britain Pounds) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/07.This is from a total cash prize of £4,580,352 (Four Million, Five Hundred And Eighty Thousand, Three Hundred
And Fifty Two Great Britain Pounds) shared amongst 6 lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 6.

Your prize award has been insured in your email and is ready for claims. To begin your claims, you are advised to expeditiously contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners for the processing of your winning and remittances to your designated bank account
after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £763,392
(Seven Hundred And Sixty Three Thousand, Three Hundred and Ninety Two Great Britain Pounds) will be released to you by our fiduciary agent in UK.Please be informed
thatclaims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice. Our payment unit will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with the
particulars presented below sending the batch and reference numbers and these information?s below for quick Verifications and release of funds
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday to Satuday.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. 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 nwarranted abuse of this program. Any
lottery double claim dedected by our monitoring committee will lead to the UK national lottery cacelling the winnings. Making a loss for both the
real Winner, and the fake (intended) claimer.

Below you will find a Documentation Form, requesting you?re required Particulars.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY DOCUMENTATION FORM


FULL NAMES:

ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP:
PHONE:/FAX
COUNTRY
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY ........


REPLY to uklottocentre@gmail.com

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