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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: FACEBOOK LOTTERY BOARD. <facebooklotteryty@info.org>
Reply-To: facebooklotteryty@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:33:20 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! !!!!


CONGRATULATIONS! !

Welcome to the official site of the FACEBOOK® Seasons
Promotions.FACEBOOK LOTTERY PROMOTION !!!
The Online Consumer Promotions 2012.
European Region Office:
10B Widemarsh Street
Hereford Square,
London HP1 8HFD,
England.
http://www.facebook.com

BATCH NUMBER: FB/8056490902.
REF NUMBER: FB/UK/2012.

CONGRATULATIONS!

CONGRATULATIONS! !

AWARD NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the draw of the FACEBOOK® Lottery Promotions for the year 2012, at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by FACEBOOK®. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP.£500,000 (five hundred thousand, British Pounds Sterling).

FACEBOOK Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the E-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all E-mail Providers most especially Yahoo, Gmail, Gawabmail, AOLMAIL,Hotmail and many other E-mail domain, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per-annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of our lucky winners. Our winners includes both subscribers and non subscribers FACEBOOK®.

You will definitely receive your money from our bank, without any
problem.

FACEBOOK did this in appreciation to encourage people to use there services. You will receive the amount you won, GBP.£500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand, British Pounds Sterling).

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIMS:

Your Approval File was sent to London United Kingdom due to we have 3 lucky winners in London, so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there.

You are to contact our London United Kingdom Location Claim Office on or before your date of Claim, so that he will direct you on how you will receive your money in London.

FACEBOOK Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (7 days) will be
forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
Ticket number: 00545 188 564756,
Prize #77801209/N,
WINNING NUMBER: FB/575061725.
Serial number 5368/02
Lucky numbers: 17 98 09 67 46

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE;

Simply contact our Customer Service Information Headquarters (C.S.I.H Department),he will direct you on the bank that will pay you there in United Kingdom, after clarification.
Rev.(Sir) Albert Klein.
E-mail: albertklein@consultant.com
Tel: +447024033752.

CONGRATULATIONS! !

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Send these following information to the C.S.I.H Department immediately for further procession.

1 Full Name: ............................
2 Telephone Number:......................
3 Contact Address:.......................
4 Date of birth :........................
5 Age:...................................
6 Occupation:............................
7 Sex:...................................
8 Marital Status:........................
9 Country of Origin:.....................
10 Winning Number:.......................
11 Serial number:........................
12 Lucky numbers:........................

KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY!

The total amount of money you will receive is GBP.£500,000 (Five
Hundred Thousand, British Pounds Sterling).

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Yours in service,
Prof. Wilcox Bruce.


If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact Rev.(Sir).Albert Klein At...., albertklein@consultant.com; see the instructions at the body of this message.

CONGRATULATIONS! !

Copyright © 2012 FACEBOOK® Promotions!!!


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