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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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Fraud email example:

From: tonybrooke@xmail.net
Reply-To: ussgl@live.com
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:48:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IENPTkdSQVRVTEFUSU9OIFlPVSBIQVZFIFdPTiBVU0EgR1JFRU4gQ0FS?=
=?utf-8?B?RCBWSe+7v++7v1NBISEh4oCP4oCP4oCP?=




United States Department of State, 
 National- visa- center 32  Rochester  Ave,
  Portsmouth , NH 0358801-2  USA  
 
Case- Number::FRC55865663318AA
Preferences- Categories:-  (DV DIVERSITY)
Foreign- State -Chargeability
 
Dear winner,
We wish to inform you that you are among the lucky selected winners of the-  U.S. Green Card Email ballot lottery program of the 2013 edition . 
 
Details. 
This e-mail ballot visa- lottery- program was innovated ON 24th June by- USAFIS, This is the 2nd edition of the program and its designed to be held every year, the aims and objectives of the program is to give free- visa's to citizens of developing countries around  the world who wishes to travel to U.S and start a new life and work. 

In this innovated program, no -registrations were being made or required as the program was being conducted through computer draw system of e-mail random extractions from world wide registered websites. 

In this 2nd edition of the program, two hundred and twenty five (225) U.S- visa's were released and 6.3 million e-mail addresses were extracted from world wide registered web-sites during the 33-days extraction period that ran  for final selection, all extracted email
addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy for final- selection through computer- draw- system. 

Your e-mail address attached to ticket- number (564002-188) drew -the lucky- number's which subsequently won you the U.S visa and we are sending the winning- notification- directly through the- selected- winning e-mail address which means that if you receive the winning- notification in your mail box that you have been selected- among the lucky- winner's. 

Approximately One hundred and fifty five (155) lucky- selected- winner's had been notified- through their selected e-mail addresses- including you today 

Your visa- winning -identification- Case -number is (FRC55865663318AA) Note that your visa- winning identification Case number is your PIN CODE to claiming your visa.  

Disqualification, 
Any -selected- lucky- winner from the some countries will be disqualified, this is because each has more than 50,000 candidates in the U.S:- 

Basic- question. 
How can I make the claim of my visa? 
You will obtain your visa through the- U.S Consular officer in your home country or country of your present residence and note that the U.S Consular officer in your home country or country of your present residence will not attend to you without your processed documents of which to access your visa winnings through their network database. 

Our visa processing agents had been apportioned among six geographic regions, all selected lucky winner's will need to act on their claims applications quickly before the visa claim expiration
deadline(15th August2013) 

FOR YOUR- VISA- FORM AND REQUIREMENTS,CONTACT OUR MIDDLE EAST/ASIA/PACIFIC -AGENT VIA THIS CONTACT DETAILS, 

NAME: MRS DONNA WHITE 
Tel : +66-888-812-615 
E-mail:  usaagency@usa.com
E:mail: ussgl@live.com
 

 
Benefits. 
All the selected -lucky -winner's will get free air tickets to the U.S. Your air ticket will be send to you by our  Middle East/Asia  /pacific -agent together with your processed documents. 

Please read and follow all the enclosed instructions very carefully.
Do not reply back to this notification e- mail (busy)
 
For further inquiries; 
Contact our  Asia/Middle East  /pacific agent where your visa winning details falls. 

Sincerely
yours, 
Mr. Tony Brooke 
Secretary General US Consulate  Kentucky 

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