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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: Yahoo! Beta Mail Promtion <yahagentonline@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:25:45 -0800
Subject: Your email ID has been awarded $1.5 Million USD

Yahoo! Beta 2013

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of ONE . FIVE MILLION DOLLARS US DOLLARS ($1.5 Million Dollars,00) for the YEAR 2013 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hot mail, and others we only select FIVE (5) candidates annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM POLICY: NOTE:Any information that is provided by winners must be correct as provision of wrong information by winners may lead to disqualification of a winner and you also have to keep your winning numbers/notification top secret and press anonymity until the end of the proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary and security measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.......................YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number............................YBM-EBS-110AF Winning number.................. YBM-EBS-798AF Amount won
..............($1.5 Million Dollars,00)USD

Kindly contact the claims agent below, via email for further instructions on what next to do to claim your our winning funds.

Claims agent name: Jennifer Lee Young
Claims agentemail:jenniferleeyoung@rocketmail.com Therefore, you are required to forward your details to our claims department/Finance/Legal
office to help facilitate the processing of your fund as stated below

SECTION (1)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full name......................
2. Country.........................
3. Contact Address...........
4. Telephone Number............
5. Marital Status..............
6. Occupation...................
7. Age...............................
8. Sex................................

SECTION (2)BANKING INFORMATION We can pay you by only three methods, diplomatic means,check delivery to your house address, and bank transfer. Write yes in the space if you choose diplomatic means, check delivery to your house address or bank transfer.

Important advice :Make sure you fill this payment form correctly and if you choose bank transfer medium you must provide us with bank account number, bank address and bank name for easy transfer.

1. Check Delivery to your house address........
2. Diplomatic Means........................
3. Bank Transfer.....................
4. Bank Account no....................
5. Bank Address/Information................


NOTE: NOBODY WILL TOUCH YOUR MONEY FOR ANY REASON AND AN AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE BANK (ZENITH BANK PLC ) BEFORE THE BANK CAN RELEASE YOUR MONEY, WRITE TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AND REQUEST ON HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE FUND

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service


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