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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: "Mr. Eric Adams" <onlineprmtn3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ericadams021@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:20:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON USD$1, 5000.00






CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON USD$1, 5000.00

UK-LOTTO PROMO

101 WIGMORE STREET LONDON,

GREATER LONDON WIU,

UNITED KINGDOM

 

Dear Lucky Winner,

 This month being the month of June, 2013 you have been awarded the sum of
USD$1,5000,00 in the UK-LOTTO Satellite Software
email lottery in which your e-mail addresses are picked up randomly by Software
powered by the internet through the worldwide website.

 Your email address was among those chosen this year for the UK-LOTTO
Satellite lottery. And this promotional program is proudly sponsored by the
UK-LOTTO organization.

 

Your email address attached to Ref number 5, 7, 14, 17,
18, 43 with Serial 10, and consequently
won the lottery in the "A" Category. You have therefore been approved
the lump sum pay out of USD$1, 5000.00.Number: MML-43668
drew the lucky.

 Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our
London Booklet representative. In View of this, your winning prize will be
released to you by our fiduciary agent located In London United Kingdom .Our
agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
winning funds As soon as you contact them.



 This promotion takes place annually for security reasons, you are advised
to keep your winning details confidential till your claims is processed and
your winning funds remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to Claim
your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agents: Agents names: Mr. West Brown and Dr.Frank Richardson. Email:
onlineprmtn@gmail.com/onlineprmtn1@gmail.com

 

Provide them with the information as stated below:

( Name:::::::::::::::::  ( Sex::::::::::::::::Location:::::::::

( Nationality:::::::::: ( Age::::::::::::::::::::::

( Occupation:::::::::::: (Marital::::::::::::::::

(Telephone Number::::::::::: ( Address::::::::::::::



These details facilitate the due process and the release of winnings to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications in the processing of your  Winnings.
Note: all winnings MUST be claimed before 31 days otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.
Congratulations once more

from all members and staff of this program.

 Sincerely,

Mrs. Sarah Mosinee Nickolas’

Online Games Director

UK-LOTTO PROMO


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