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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!" <yahoolottery2014@cc.yahoo-inc.fr>
Reply-To: customercare2014agent@e-mail.ua
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:29:42 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR EMAIL HAS BEEN SELECTED AND HAVE WON YOU 500,
000.00 GBP, ON YAHOO! BETA FRANCE AWARD 2014.

Yahoo!France Inc.
Customer Care.
Avenue du General
leclerc, Nancy 54000
France.



This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred
Thousand (500,000.00 GB POUNDS) in the YEAR 2014/2015 YAHOO! France
Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! FRANCE LOTTERY INC for the
introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO! FRANCE BETA MAIL which all
YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch to.

YAHOO! FRANCE & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail
addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions that
subscribe at YAHOO!,HOT MAIL, GOOGLE MAIL, AOL MAIL, BT INTERNET MAIL, ATT
MAIL and Others WEB MAIL. We only selected THREE (3) candidates as our
winners after undergoing the random selection process through electronic
balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate
you for being one of the people selected with your email address.


PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim Agent Dr.Barry Wright who will issue you a
clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our
Regional office in Istanbul, Turkey European sub-region of Europe and your
prize money will be released to you from any of our regional promotion
banks as directed by the claim agent.

YAHOO! France Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days
from date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

Note: (Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION

Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Turkey
European Regional booklet representative office in Istanbul, Turkey
European as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your (Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds) will be released to you by any of our payment
regional offices in ISTANBUL, TURKEY Europe Precisely.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT HERE AND ALSO DO CALL HIM
Our Africa Fiduciary Claims Agent:
Dr.Barry Wright
Official Email Address:
claimsbarrywright08@live.com
customercare2014agent@e-mail.ua

Telephone Number: 0022504907776 / 0022503471961

Enjoy Online Lottery

You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to
facilitate and process the transfer of your fund with any of our Bank
promotion agents.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that
he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Full Name:....................................
2. Nationality/Religion:.........................
3. Contact Address:..............................
4. Telephone Number:.............................
5. Fax Number:...................................
6. Date of Birth:................................
7. Occupation....................................
8. Age...........................................
9. Sex...........................................
10.Alternative E-mail address:...................

IMPORTANT NOTE:You are advised to keep your winning information
confidential to avoid "Double Claim and Abuse of the Program" until your
prize is paid to you.

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account. Now take the next
step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo! You select how to
transfer the prize money to you

1. Account Transfer to your nominated bank
2. Check Delivery
3. Diplomatic Service


This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as
will be directed by the Sub-Region of France Claim/verification agent.



Yahoo! France & Ireland

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