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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: "Jenny Adams" <j.jenny@sportstoto.com.my>
Reply-To: lotto.malaysia@yahoo.com.my
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 06:13:45 +0800
Subject: PAYMENT INFORMATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

TOTO ONLINE LOTTERY MALAYSIA

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final
draws of toto Annual Promotion Malaysia.
The online Toto Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from
the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were
assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the
following data:

Ref Number: TOTO/941OYI/02/SYEN
Batch Number: 53/234/0689
Ticket Number: 3648/12
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
£750,000 (SEVEN HUNDREND AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS ONLY) each from
thetotal payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company for SECOND
category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give
the following information?s to the claim's agent via email

CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
6. Age:
Dr Alex Peters,
CALTEX PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Email:lotto.malaysia@yahoo.com.my
Phone:+601112987635
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this
date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your
claims agent.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially
your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double
claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate
in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Dr Henry lee,
Foreign resource officer TOTO online draws.

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