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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: "Facebook" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <loteriedefacebook@zing.vn>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:29:01 +0100
Subject: Facebook Notifications ( Reference: 76739900 - Batch: KTU 90902232 )

Facebook Lottery Winning Notifications
West Africa Lottery Establishment
Reference: 76739900
Batch: KTU 90902232
Winning no: KB1973

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Hello Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of the result of the E-mail address ballot lottery draw of the Facebook International Lottery Program, which took place on the 5th day of June 2013. This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws. This lottery draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World Wide Web. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers 11 13 26 34 44 48 and bonus ball number 02 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$5,000,000.00 (FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02. This is from the total cash prize of US$50,000,000 Million Dollars, shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All participant were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of Multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our AFRICAN representative office in ACCRA, GHANA, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$5,000,000.00 will be released to you from the regional branch office ACCRA in GHANA. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for the Grand Prize of US$20 million international draw.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact your claims agent:

MR. STEPHEN MANDIGOR
CELL PHONE NUMBER: +233 544 433 478
E-MAIL : loteriedefacebook@zing.vn

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements, equally to
guard against non- participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program. Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME (ON OR BEFORE 31st OCTOBER 2013) otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.

Note that you have to call Mr. STEPHEN MANDIGOR (+233 544 433 478) before sending your listed information's to him.

Full name:
Telephone number:
Fax number:
Mailing address:
Age:
Occupation:
Ktu Number:
Draw Number:

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Helen Blake
Executive Co-ordinator
New Zealand Lottery Establishment
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman
Manager Foreign Operations

Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS OFFICE, MAKE SURE YOU
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT: loteriedefacebook@zing.vn
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU SEND DOWN YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR WINNING,BATCH AND REF NUMBERS. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION

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