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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: "jimmywo76@libero.it" <jimmywo76@libero.it>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:26:41 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: NOKIA LOTTERY Winner



NOKIA LOTTERY FINANCIAL SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL CLAIM DEPARTMENT,
10 Great Pulteney Street

W1F 9NB London.



NOKIA CO-OPERATION PRESIDENTIAL HEAD QUARTER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Tel; +447024018386

Tel; + 441224459238,

Fax + 44 7 290893 1



Date , 2013

CLAIM NO: NOK/UK-0013



WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Dear Nokia Winner.

We are please to informed you that you are one of the declared winners of the NOKIA LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES held on JAN 01ST 2013 in the 2nd category. Note that there were no sales of tickets as the NOKIA PROMOTION AWARD was held through collections of emails/tagged profiles via the internet, your Email ID/tagged profiles was attach with a NOKIA E7 Series, Serial No: E787B3406, Ref No: NOKIA E769ZF35 and Tagged Ticket No: E7K2907803-2.

We have made many unsuccessful attempts to contact you regarding this winning, you are there entitled to the sum of ($400.000USD) this is from a total prize money of 25 Billion USD that was shared and presented among the other declared winners. Your claim number is NOK/UK-0013 and has been assigned to our claims Affiliate office.

You are advised to contact your claim agent immediately for further clarification as indicated below within 5 days.

Mrs. Zeng Le.
Executive Director/Nokia Asia Pay Center
Address: No’ 789 Siam road bangkhunphrom.
Bangkok Thailand,
Tel: +668 44487 143
Fax: +662 78994 009 1
E-mail: Ncoordinator@consultant.com



Send your Information to:

1. Full Name:
2. Full Address:
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Country:
8. International passport copy or ID card (scan copy)
9. Tel Number:
10. Serial number:
11. Ref number:
12. Tagged ticket number:
13. E-mail ID:




Congratulation

Yours Truly



Prof Louis Mitchel (Mrs.)
Nokia executive Director
Notification Department

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