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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 PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT" <Noreply@nationallottery.co.uk>
Reply-To: irbpaymentcenter@accountant.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:06:10 -0400
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION !!!




NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
101 BOVILL ROAD
LONDON. SE23 1EL.



Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD



WINNING NOTIFICATION


The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery
wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online
Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.



Your email account have been picked as a winner of Six Hundred Thousand
Pounds Sterling (£600,000.00) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling (£4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners. This results is now
released to you on Wednesday the 04th day of July 2012 and your email
address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 3-9-14-19-34-38 and bonus ball --36-- in
the Lotto, to check your results online click on this link
http://lottery.co.uk/res/ participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email
address users.



Your fund has been converted into a bank draft with a hardcover insurance.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this
award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your bank
draft sent directly to your designated delivery address as this is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking
advantage of this program by the general public.


**************************************************
Contact Agent: MR. Trevor Baker
Foreign Services Directorate,
Skyflight pacific service
E-mail: zonaldept12@w.cn.
Phone: Tel: +447031985198
**************************************************


You will be required to quote your lucky number,for confirmation on your
winnings. All winning must be claimed not later than 3weeks after receipt
of this mail. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to
European Union Treasury as unclaimed prize for good cause. Please note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number in all correspondence.You are therefore
advised to give the following information to your assigned fiduciary Agent
via email or telephone.



1.Full name and address.
2.Country.
3.Tel and fax number.
4.Occupation.
5.Languages Spoken.
6.Religion.
7.Any Identification.



Congratulations from the entire member of staff and thank you for being
part of our email account users program.


Congratulations,
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs, Sandra Smith Well
Executive (International Sweepstakes).



Program Warning!!! Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be
impersonator using our names and addresses, but are not from the NATIONAL
LOTTERY ONLINE PROGRAM PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO CUSTOMER
CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT.
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