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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: "Mrs Linda Green" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrslindagreen01@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:11:48 +0100
Subject: RE: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION,
ROYAL MAGIC E-MAIL LOTTERY PROGRAM
VIA MARTIN LUNIMA STREET,
FLINT, A541.
LIVER POOL.
UNITED KINGDOM.

INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTO PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD.
BATCH NO: RMELP/FP/1209/00067/002
REF. No: RMELP/SP/37239/80327/662

WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you of the release of the ROYAL MAGIC E-MAIL LOTTERY PROGRAM BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 23rd of June, 2012 and the results released on the 27th of June, 2012.
Your email address attached to Ticket No:00586 with Serial No 558902 drew the lucky numbers of 41-22-010-245-45-922 which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Britain Pounds) in cash credited to file REF. No: MELP/ZP/5679/59827/760. This is from a total cash prize of 23.7million Britain Pounds shared among several international lucky winners in the premium, 1st, 2nd and 3rd categories respectively. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 350,000 companies, and 25,000,000 individual e-mail addresses all over the world.To begin your lottery claim, do contact the Director of Wnnings with the information below:

DR. Harrison Burter
DIRECTOR OF WINNINGS
ROYAL MAGIC E-MAIL LOTTERY PROGRAM
Tel: +44-703-5923-132
FAX: +44-870-1207-133
EMAIL: drharryburt@w.cn

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than three weeks after the receipt of this e-mail. After this period all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications do remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do not hesitate inform your Director of Winnings as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

NOTE: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Linda Green
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION

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