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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: "England Arts & Council Lottery 2012." <ahmet.bozdemir@denizcilik.gov.tr>
Reply-To: acctlotery@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 01:50:28 +0200
Subject: England Arts & Council Email Lottery 2012

Dear Winner,
Congratulations! You have won £1,000,000,00 GBP (One Million Great British
Pounds) in the ongoing England Arts & Council Email Lottery 2012 held in
London UK. In this lottery program you don't need to buy a lottery ticket
to enter and win this money, your email address was selected from our
electronic ballot system with lucky number (36175100). You are hereby
advised to contact our payment and claims department for instant release of
your prize to you. To claim your cash prize you are to email your Ballot
number to our claims process agent Mrs. Ela McQueen on the following email
address:acctlotery@hotmail.co.uk

Regards,
Lottery Notification Team.

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