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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: "Facebook Promotion" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbadept@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:35:29 +0530
Subject: £2,000,000.00!!!

Facebook Lottery Promotion
30 Leicester Square. City,London.
Country, United Kingdom.
WC2H 7LA
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Dear Lucky Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of £2,000,000.00 GBP(Two Million Great British Pounds) and a HP LAPTOP for the Yearly Facebook Bottling Lottery promotion United Kingdom 2014, which was organized by Facebook in conjunction with Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company, “Your Email Address" were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand Emails from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, we only select five people as our winners, through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.

These are your identification numbers:
Ticket Number:(FB-00545-18856-4756)
Serial Number: (536802-02)
Lucky Numbers: (FB-225-7736)

To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent
***************************************************
Payment and Release Order Department
Name:Prof. Raymond Clay.
Tel:+447010039957
Email: fbadept@gmail.com
***************************************************
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
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1. Full name:
2. Residential Address:
3. Sex:
4. Age:
5. Your Mobile Number:
6. Occupation:
7. Country:
8. Serial No:
9. Lucky No:
10. Ticket No:
11. Winning E-mail id:


We want to Congratulate You Once Again and Please Do Not Forget to Help the Poor In the Society When Facebook Makes You a Beneficiary Of their World Of Wealth.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. James Mark
Foreign Service Manager
Facebook Lottery

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