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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: COCA-COLA COMPANY PROMOTION 2013 EMAIL DRAW
<cocacolalottery@info.com>
Reply-To: nellydave1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 06:42:39 -0200
Subject:



Your EMail-ID has been awarded £1,000,000.00 GBP in COCA-COLA COMPANY

PROMOTION 2013 EMAIL DRAW.
This is in line with company policy in celebrating with it's valued

customer in this year season.Your prize money has been made available

for claim, as it is pending for your collection.

All Participants were selected through a Computer Ballot System drawn

from a pool of over 25,000 EMail of distinguished Professionals drawn

from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New zealand, middle east, parts

of Africa, and south America. as part of our International Promotions

Program conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries.

We hope that with part of your Prize awards, you will take part in our

subsequent Lottery Jackpots.


Your prize money has been made available for claims, as it is pending

for your collection. For claims, provide below information and send to

.Mr Nelly Dave Office Tel: +447011130211. Email.

nellydave1@hotmail.com

In line with the Governing rules of claims, you are requested to

furnish us the following information

1.FULL NAMES:
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
8.MOBILE NUMBER:
9.STATE:
10.COUNTRY:


We advise you to keep this information to yourself until you have been

able to collect your winning fund, as there have been cases of double

and unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties

about his/her winning's

Do understand that, this is done to ensure that, we are dealing with

the rightful winner in this Category to avoid double claiming by non-

winners as your winning amount is £1,000,000 GBP (One million great

British pounds sterling) and as such cannot afford any uncertainty.

In Receipt of the required information we shall start with the

verification, processing and certification of your claims.

Importantly, for the enablement of your Claims, you are advised to

comply with our payout procedures, as these are mere formalities that

will guarantee payment of funds to all qualified winners in this

Category and not to Non Winners.

Furthermore note that, all funds should be claimed not later than the

stipulated Deadline. After this date, all unclaimed Funds will be

returned to the British Gaming Board (B.G.B) which will be in turn

sent to the Lottery Commission for subsequent Draws.

Acknowledge the Receipt of this Mail upon it's Confirmation.

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