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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: "Administration London" <admin@bellewether.ca>
Reply-To: fulbrightbrok@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 08:05:46 -0500
Subject: Re:Admin




P.O.Box 101 Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom



(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK

Attention: Email Account Holder,

Congratulations, congratulations!!, We happily announce to you the 2014
draw (#1453) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion
drawn in London on Tuesday 1/04/ 2014. Your active e-mail address attached
to the World Wide Web computer generated online ticket number: DTK21457483
with reference number GBP/WD77/2014 and Serial number KPA5365X7 Batch
number 08/11810/ZIE,drew the lucky numbers: 03 06 11 17 23 29 Bonus 44
This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6
lucky numbers as jackpot prize.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £1,200,000.00
(One Million Two Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in cash is credited to
file UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of £14,210,702.00
Shared amongst the 315,337 with (3) lucky winners in "1st" category.

PRIZE BREAKDOWN
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw 1453 Thursday 14th March, 2014 03 06 11 17 23 29 Bonus 44 Lotto
-Jackpot for this draw £7,454,617
------------------------------------------------------------

No. of matches No. of winners £s per winner £s Prize fund
Match 6 8 £931,827 £7,454,617

Match 5 plus Bonus 26 £22,726 £590,876

Match 5 1,172 £315 £369,180

Match 4 41,092 £19 £780,748

Match 3 549,274 £10 £5,492,740

Totals 591,572 £14,037,648



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Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used
for draw Ball set used

8
ARTHUR 1
This promotion was drawn based on email address/Blackberry Phone Serial as
the key identification for setting up online accounts. All valid email
addresses in the World Wide Web Draw used/participants for the online
email promotion version were selected randomly via computer balloting from
a global website collaboration with internet companies like eBay,pay pal,
liberty reserve, and Google whom also built their systems and based their
membership registration identity on email addresses supporting this
computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over 100,000
unions,associations, and corporate bodies and affiliated members to the
National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online.

This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is
done Bi-annually.

Please note that your lucky winning ticket file and number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in
your ballot played coupon. In view of this, your £1,200,000.00 would be
released to you by our payment department.

Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your
lottery prize by providing details below.

1. Full Name:
2. Reference Number/
3. Age/Occupation:
4. Winning email Address:
5. Phone Number:
6. Country:

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you
in whatever choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
are in place. Please be warned!!! To file for your claim, please contact
our fiduciary agent and provide them with your winning ticket and details.

UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Mr.George Galloway
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre
Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom
TEL: 00-44 793 746 3514
FAX: 00-44 793 744 6992
E-mail:fulbrightbrok@gmail.com
E-mail:George.gallowayad@representetive.com

"Please do not reply back to the senders address or the source email
address, this notification is sent automatically via computer virtual
notification to winning email addresses and a response will not be
attended by human but computer" contact the fiduciary agents above "

Yours faithfully,
Samantha Hammond

Online Coordinator. National Lottery Customer Care Team UK
LOTTERY.Copyright (c) 1994-2014 The UK Lottery International Promotion
Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378
255667460

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