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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: "Yahoo! Inc" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barr.mike.adams_chamber_001@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:37:07 +0100
Subject: You Have Won $1,000,000.00 Dollars From Yahoo Lottery.(Your E-mail was Selected from the Draws 2011/2012 Promotion)

Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care .
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale , CA 94089 .
USA .

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Lucky Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million United States Dollars Only (US$1,000,000.00) in the YEAR 2011/2012 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the NEW YAHOO! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! Subscribers are required to switch to. YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected THREE (3) candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.


PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim's agent Barrister Mike Adams Chambers who will issue you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our Regional office in London , United Kingdom . And your prize money will be released to you from any of our regional promotion banks as directed by the claim agent.

YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:


Batch Number.................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff Number..................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning Number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

These numbers above fall within the United Kingdom and West African Location files, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and personal information to him;

Barrister Mike Adams Chamber
Claim Agent and Verification Officer
E-mail Address: barrmike_adams.chamber@yahoo.com, barr.mike.adams_chamber_001@hotmail.com

Phone: +2348030928507 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Local Time)
********************************* **************************************************

You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate and process the transfer of your fund with any of our Bank promotion agents.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full Name:.........................
2. Nationality/Religion:.....................
3. Contact Address:.............................
4. Telephone/Fax Number:............................
5. Int'l Passport:.................................
6. Date of Birth:........................
7. Occupation.............................
8. Age...................................
9. Sex........................................
10.Alternative E-mail address:....................
11.Next of Kin of the Beneficiary in case.........

You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid double claim and abuse of the program until your prize is paid to you.

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account. Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!

You select how to transfer the prize money to you

1. Account Transfer to your nominated account
2. Cheque Delivery
3. Atm Card

This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as will be directed by the United Kingdom Claim/verification agent.

Note: No amount should be allowed to be deducted from your prize money as a contractual agreement between this board and the paying bank.

We use this opportunity to thank our major network sponsors/promoter for their support to this year winning notification draw to the lucky winners.

Yahoo! UK & Ireland

This e-mail is from Yahoo! Head Office USA and approved by the Yahoo! UK Ltd, 125 Shaftsbury Avenue , London , WC2H 8AD .

Copyright 2012 Yahoo Inc!. All rights reserved

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