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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: FACEBOOKLOTTERY AWARD <dr.klose4me@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:52:07 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON A FACEBOOK LOTTERY OF $950,000.00 DOLLARS

FACEBOOK LOTTERY SEASONAL PROMOTION 2014 !!!
Welcome to the official site of the FACEBOOK annual lottery Promotions.
United State of American FACEBOOK LOTTERY PROMOTION 2014 !!!
European Region Office:
Hereford Square,
Florida HP1 8HFD,
http//:www.facebook.com

DEAR LUCKY WINNER.

We happily announce to you the result of the FACEBOOK Lottery
Promotions for the year 2014, at our Lotto Draw Headquarters in United
State of American,organized by FACEBOOK. This is to inform you that
you have won a prize money of $950,000.00 dollars, (Nine Hundred and
Fifty thousand United State Dollars).

FACEBOOK Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the E-mail
addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions
that subscribed to all E-mail Providers most especially Yahoo, Gmail
and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per-annually as
our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the
candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of our lucky
winners. Our winners includes both subscribers and non subscribers
FACEBOOK.

You have therefore been approved to claim the total prize sum of
$950,000.00 American dollars,You will definitely receive your money
through our paying bank, without any problem.

FACEBOOK did this in appreciation to encourage people to use there
services. You will receive the amount you won, $950,000.00 (Nine
Hundred and Fifty thousand United State Dollars).

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIMS:

Your Approval File was sent to Nigeria due to we have 3
lucky winners in Nigeria, so that you can be cleared and paid
simultaneously there.

You are to contact our Claims agent Rev. William Anderson through his
email address contact so that he will direct you on how you will
receive your money in Nigeria.

FACEBOOK Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 8 days from date
of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (8 days) will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
,
WINNING NUMBER: FB/575061725.
Serial number 5368/02

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE;

Simply contact our claims agent Department through his email address
contact), he will direct you to our paying bank for your payment after
clarification.

Agent Name: Rev.( Sir) William Anderson.

Agent E-mail: ( agentwilliamanderson@gmail.com )

Tel: +23436815119

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Send these following information to our claim agent Department
immediately for further procession.

1 Full Name: ..............................
2 Mobile Telephone Number:.......................
3 Contact Address:.............................
4 Date of birth :..........................
5 Age:..........................
6 Occupation:..........................
7 Sex:..........................
8 Marital Status:..........................
9 Country of Origin:..........................
10 Winning Number:..........................
11 Serial number:..........................

KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.
NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH,
DEDUCT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN
WARNED STRICTLY!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Yours in service,

Prof. Wilcox Bruce.

Copyright © 2013 FACEBOOK Promotions!!!

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