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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million british pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- unionddvs1990@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Payment Center <awardpaymentoffice1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:03:21 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!

CONGRATULATIONS! !

Welcome to the official site of the FACEBOOK(R) Seasons

Promotions, FACEBOOK LOTTERY PROMOTION!!!

Online Consumer Promotions 2014.

European Region Office:10B Wide marsh Street

Hereford Square, London HP1 8HFD,

England.

www.Facebook.com/

BATCH NUMBER: FB/774.

REF NUMBER: FB/UK/2014.

AWARD NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the FACEBOOK(R) Lottery
Promotions of 2014,
at our Lotto Draw Headquarters in London United Kingdom organized by
FACEBOOK(R), among the millions of emails that subscribed to all emails
Providers that were randomly picked by the computer during our Online
Raffle Ticket Draw (ORTD).

Your email address was among the 7 emails addresses that won One million
British pounds sterling (GBP1m) on our face book promotion for 2014 network
internet user with a winning batch number fb774, so please contact Dr.
Martin Joe from union security and finance company with this email address
unionddvs1990@yahoo.com for your payment direction, European Enterprise
Promotion Face book Award have already confirmed you with your batch number
above. Congratulations once again. Please fill the below information and
submit it to union security company with this email address
unionddvs1990@yahoo.com from Spain.

Mark Zuckerberg the C.E.O of Face Book social network remain one of the
highest charity giver in the world today, please keep on and patronize Face
Book social network.

Please you are advice to keep your wining serial code confidential until
your winning is fully paid to you. Congratulations once again to be a lucky
winner for 2014 edition, let's keep the world moving.

1. Full Name....

2. Country ...

3. Telephone number...

4. Email address...

5. Age...

6. Occupation...

Signed

Board of director

Cipora Herman.

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