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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: "National-Lottery.Co.UK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robert-gilbert@live.com.my>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:34:10 -0000
Subject: Dear Friend

Hello

First, I humbly crave your indulgence.

My name is Robert Gilbert, a British Citizen, an accountant by profession. I work
with one of the lottery companies in England, United Kingdom.

i got your contact from an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

In my capacity as an accountant in my company am involved in the preparation and
approval of prizes ledgers to our lottery winners. I have been working with my company
for more than 10 years, highly experienced and acquainted with all the financial issues
about lottery winnings, out payments and unclaimed winnings.

I am contacting you because we have loads of unclaimed lottery winnings in my company
which i would like to present/approve you as one of the lottery winners.

as I know very well that these funds will be cleared and
distributed to several sectors, including health, education and charitable organisations at the end of the
expiry date of claims, if the winner do not come forward to claim their prizes. I cannot
make claim to these unclaimed lottery winnings in my name because I work with these
lottery organisation and that is the reason that am contacting you

My proposal to you is simple and the reality of it can be read and verified on the yahoo news link below:

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/unclaimedPrizes.do

Please note that I am not just looking for anybody to do this with, but a reliable and
trustworthy person, based on the huge amount of money involved in this project
which is (GBP12,000,000)British Pounds

These project ratio between us will be 50% for me, 50% for you out rightly.

I guarantee you that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law

If you wish to work with me, write back soon and i will give you a detailed explanation on how to start with this project.


Thanks
Robert Gilbert

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