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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 Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <uklottoemailwins4466@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:47:07 -0800
Subject: Your email has won GBP3,888,150 ie $6,000,000

UK LOTTERY,
PO Box 287
Watford. WD18 9TT
Registered office: Tolpits Lane, Watford, Herts WD18 9RN
Registered in England and Wales. Reg. No. 2822203

OUR REF: UKLO/BT/031183
SPONSORSHIP NUMBER: 068501.
GAMING APPROVAL NUMBER: 7321001682.
Fax Number: +44 8872 115 8501

We happily announce to you the results of UK LOTTERY'S FREE TICKET ONLINE DRAWS of January, 2012 held in THAILAND. We congratulate you on the success of your email address which came out in the first winnings category and won you the total sum of GBP3,888,150 British Pounds in our free ticket, online and email address computer balloting.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number UKLP-66-73-203-13 with serial number 5039398064482100 drew this lucky numbers 26-33-89-003-72 which subsequently won the Lottery and Qualified you as an international winner. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of THREE MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY GREAT BRITISH POUNDS.

Your email address was Reference Numbered to: 56475600545188 and your winnings and payment Batch Number is 074/05/ZY369. For your GBP3,888,150 British Pounds payment process to begin, you will be expected to reply with the below listed winnings and personal claims information:

* Your complete official names
* Full address & country name
* Telephone & mobile numbers
AGE, GENDER, OCCUPATION AND JOB TITLE.
* Free ticket and Lucky numbers
* Reference, Serial and Batch numbers
* Date and venue of draw

After you have replied with the above winnings and personal claims information, our Claims Agent Mr. Newell Kean will get back to you with further details on how you will be paid your won prize of GBP3,888,150 which is also equivalent to US$6,000,000.00

Just incase you are thinking of how you won without enteringor playing the lottery, then know again that this very draw of the UK Lottery Organization in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket, online, and email address draws where thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweeptakes and during winners selection your email address came out among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the entire sum of US$6,000,000.00

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
MR. GREGORY HOPES
NOTIFICATION MANAGER.

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