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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: "London Olympics Lottery" <londonolypics@london.com>
Reply-To: londonolympicsclaimsdept@live.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:33:22 +0200 (SAST)
Subject: Your Winning Notification!!!

From The Desk of Mrs. Sarry Keithson
Address: 1 Plough Place, London,
EC4A 1DE United Kingdom.
Email:londonolympicsclaimsdept@live.co.uk


Attention: Dear Lucky Winner,

This is to notify you that you are one of the lucky winners selected
worldwide to receive sum of GBP£950, 000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Great British Pounds) for this month prize promotion which is
organized Following the successful bid and approval by the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) of London City as the host city for
the 2012 Summer Olympics/ Paralympics games.UK Lottery in collaboration
with the London 2012 Local Organizing Committee (LOC) floated this
promotional draw for the promotion of the upcoming games.

In the light of the above, we happily announce to you the draw of the
Special Global 2012 Olympics Promotional Draw held on (Monday 23 July
2012) draw in London City, United Kingdom. The Lottery Draw was based on
random selection exercises of database of E-mail addresses on internet
websites worldwide and the Globe divided into Zones. No tickets were sold
but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket
numbers for representation, and your Email ID credited to Ticket No:
(UK/L/01076L).

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£950, 000.00
(Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds) in cash credited to
file GERUKZA/851ENLHI/2012. This is from a total cash prize of
£11,100,000.00 Million Pounds Sterling, shared amongst the first One
Hundred and-thirty (130) lucky winners in this category worldwide. Please
note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
representative office in United Kingdom).

In view of this, your winnings of GBP£950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Great British Pounds) would be released to you by our program
accredited pay out Officer (Agent). Our London agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning prize
money.

For claims, you are to directly contact our assigned Agent in our England
Zonal payment Centre via bellow Email:

CONTACT PERSON (AGENT) MR. JACK WILLIAMS
EMAIL: londonolympicsclaimsdept@live.co.uk
TEL: +447035931573

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Keep your winning information confidential until you have received your
winning prize to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. The deposited cash prize with “BARCLAYS BANK PLC, LONDON” has
been insured by the organizer before the funds will be transferred. Fill
in your online application correctly in bold letters and or email to us
immediately so that we can proceed with the required claim process.

ONLINE REQUEST

BATCH NUMBER: UK/12/UK-94322, REFERENCE NUMBER: GE/06/UKOLMP, TICKET
NUMBER: UK/L/01076L, PIN: 52124, FULL NAMES, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE #, FAX#,
SEX, AGE, OCCUPATION, NATIONALITY.

As soon as your details are received it will enable the approval and
issuance of your winning Certificate which the copy of it will be sent to
you via email.

CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.

Mrs. Sarry Keithson

This London 2012 Olympic Games Promotional Draw is proudly sponsored by
The local Organizing Committee of the 2012 Olympic Games,
UK Lottery, Shell, IPC, Mvela Platinum,Mc Donalds, Orange, Intel Group,
Toshiba, Dell Computers, Nokia, Alcatel, Mackintosh and a conglomeration
of other International IT Companies in order to promote the London 2012
Olympic Games .

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