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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: "Mrs. Carolina Sanchez." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.stevenchai1@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:03:29 +0700
Subject: CONTRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL WON $1 MILLION DOLLARS.

YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER
Promotions/ Prize Award Department.
Bangkok-Thailand.


Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that your email address have won a prize award money of One Million United States Dollars,
($1,000,000.00) in our ongoing 2014 monthly prize award promotions, which was organized and sponsored
by Yahoo & Msn Windows Live Microsoft prize award Promotions.

Yahoo/Msn extracts millions of active email addresses of individuals who subscribed to Yahoo mail, Hotmail and other E-mail providers, of which Yahoo/Msn electronic balloting system randomly selects five emails addresses of the lucky winners. Your email has being selected among the five lucky email owners to receive the Yahoo/Msn prize award winnings prize for this month. Congratulations!!!

PRIZE CLAIMS PAYMENTS:
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her settlement center. Yahoo & Msn Windows
Live Award Prize money must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any
Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your winning identification numbers:


BATCH NUMBER: YMSN/14/APA-44650.
REFERENCE NUMBER: 9118234533.
WINNING NUMBER: 16, 22, 30, 39, 47, 77.
PIN CODE: 6128.

The above winning numbers falls within our South East Asian Location file, therefore you are urgently required to contact our fiduciary agent in Thailand and send your winning identification numbers as stated above to him, through his email contact below.

Agent Name: Mr. Steven Chai.
YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PAYMENT AGENT.
Address: 712/66, S.M.C.Tower
29th Floor, Sri Ayuthaya Road
Kwaeng Thanon Phayathai, Khet Rajathewee,
Bangkok 10045 Thailand.
E-mail: mr.stevenchai1@outlook.com

You are advised to send the following information's to the payment agent to facilitate the release of your
prize award winning fund to you.

1. Full Name:
2. Country:
3. Contact Address:
4. Telephone Number:
5. Fax Number:
6. Sex / Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Date of birth:

We congratulate you once again for being among the five selected lucky winners to benefit from this program.

Yours Faithfully.

Mrs. Carolina Sanchez.
Lottery coordinator.
Yahoo! Inc & Msn Corp.
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WARNING!!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award winning until your prize money is successfully transferred to you as
to avoid double claims which will lead to disqualification of your prize winnings. As we have witnessed in the past.
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