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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: "Texas Lottery Commission" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:36:10 +0200
Subject: Ref NO: 7458222754

Ref NO: 7458222754

Texas Lottery Commission,
Mega Millions Lottery,
PO Box 16630
Austin Texas
USA.
txlottery.com
=====================
Winning NO: XB3/701/LNRC
Batch NO: 905534213/255
Ref NO: 7458222754
=====================
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 lucky winners in the Texas Lotto draw held on the 1st of August 2013. All 200 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 100,000,000 {ONE HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of $1,040,000 USD (One Million and forty thousand dollars only). Your email address emerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this year's Annual Draw.

The Texas Lottery is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota, Toshiba and Fully Supported by the United Nations.

The Texas lottery draw is held twice in a year interval. And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.

We are proud to say that over $2.6 billion USD are won annually in more than 150 countries world-wide.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until you claim your prize money. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Fill the form below to enable us process you winning prize
NAME..:..............................
ADDRESS.............................
PHONE NO..:.........................
OCCUPATION.: ......................
AGE..: ..............................
SEX..:...............................
COUNTRY.:.....................

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NAME; Barrister.(Mr) Gary scot
EMAIL; mrgaryscot@yahoo.com

Sincerely,
Mrs. Larisa Hull
Texas Lottery Manager
Congratulations once again !!

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