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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: "uk.intllotterry174" <uk.intllotterry174@onet.pl>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:06:30 +0200
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_You_Have_Been_Awarded_=C2=A31=2C500=2C000=2E00_GBP_THROUG?=
=?utf-8?q?H_THE_UK_INTL_LOTTERY?=


 
 
W dniu 2013-05-28 07:04:52 użytkownik uk.intllotterry174 <uk.intllotterry174@onet.pl> napisał:
The National Lottery
P.O. Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL. United Kingdom
Tel:  0044 203 300 0132
Fax: 0044 20 3514 2679
 
(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK
 
Attention: Email Account Holder, 
 
Congratulations!! Congratulations!! We happily announce to you the draw (#1398) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion held in London on 27th  May, 2013. Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number: B556075454133 with reference number UK/JA2CT-110P/10 and Serial number US5365/3 ,Batch number XA87-2PY,drew the lucky numbers: 01-05-09-27-42-45 Bonus 21. This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6 lucky numbers Plus. 
 
You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £1.5M (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) in cash as credited to file # UKPC/9080144308/07.
 
All World Wide Web valid email addresses used/participants for the online email version were selected randomly via computer balloting from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies affiliated to the National Lottery and are listed online. This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket Bi-annually. Please note that your lucky winning ticket file and number falls within our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in your ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £1.5M would be released to you by our payment department in UK.
 
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please be warned!!!
 
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the contact details below. 
 
UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mrs Lisa Breckman
Foreign Service Manager
Email:lisaabreckman@ymail.com  
Tel:  0044 702 4055 887
Fax: 0044 20 3514 2679
 
****Kindly remember to quote your Reference and Batch Numbers along with the following details:
 
NAME:.........
MAILLING ADDRESS:........
EMAIL:..........
COUNTRY:..........
PHONE/FAX NUMBER:......
AGE:.......
SEX;........
OCCUPATION:......
 
"Do not reply back to the senders address or the source email address, it is sent via computer virtual assistance for response will not be read my Human but computer" Therefore you must contact the fiduciary agents by Fax or email address provided above "  
Yours faithfully,
Teresa Marie Roberts. Online coordinator
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
 
Copyright (c) 1994-2011 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline 77635 476378     255667460
 
 

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