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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: "Mr. Patrick Esolly" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <qegtahan44@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:17:34 -0700
Subject: Rejoice and celebrate the good news right now

UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION,
LIFE CHANGING,
OUR REF: UKLO/BT/621830
SPONSORSHIP NUMBER: 444968
GAMING APPROVAL NUMBER: 2233898163


If you are the rightful owner of this email then you can proudly rejoice and celebrate the recent released result of UK Lottery online winnings draws of July 2014 held in Bangkok Thailand. Your email was attached to Free Ticket Number: UKLP-9036780144 and won on Lucky Number: 820-3312-964-8883. This legitimately entitles you to claim the sum of US$4,600,000.00 (Four million, six hundred thousand US dollars) as a FIRST CATEGORY winnings prize.

Are you thinking of how you won this lottery without entering for it or purchasing a ticket?

Note the following:

The UKLO draws of July 2014 in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket & online sweepstakes.
Thousands of e-mail addresses including yours was collected globally from several websites and used for the July 2014 online draws.
At the time of winners selection, your email was amongst the first ten which automatically won you the lotto in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the sum of US$4.6Million without any hassles.

You are to contact your Appointed Claims Agent Mr. Qeg Tahan on email: qegtahan44@gmail.com
Mr. Qeg Tahan will give you guidelines on how to claim your lottery prize of $4,600,000 via our available payment methods.
Ensure that you enclose your following winnings and personal claims information in your contact email to Mr. Qeg Tahan

*** First and Last names
*** Telephone & mobile numbers
*** Resident country, City, Address & Age
*** Ticket No., Lucky number & month of draw
OPTIONAL: Occupation and Job title

From: MR. PATRICK ESOLLY
NOTIFICATION/ONLINE CO-COORDINATOR
UK Lottery Organization.

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