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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: uk jackpot <ukjackpot00011111@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:34:01 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!! Congratulations!!!






The
National Lottery

P.O.Box 1010


Liverpool L70
1NL. United Kingdom


(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK

Attention: Email Account Holder,



Congratulations!!
Congratulations!!, We happily announce to you the draw (#14046) of the UK
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion held in London on

30th January 2016. Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web
computer generated ticket number: B55607545 4152 with
reference number UK/JA2C110P5 and Serial number ZA5365/3 ,Batch
number XA87-2PY,drew the lucky numbers: 06 14 32 35
41 Bonus 43. This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.



You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of Eight Hundred
and Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty One British Pounds (£820,731.00) in
cash is credited to file UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of
£17,403,993 shared amongst the 545,587 with (3) lucky winners in
"2nd" category.



PRIZE BREAKDOWN

------------------------------------------------------------

Draw 14046 Sat 30th January 2016. 06 14 32 35 41 Bonus
43 Jackpot for this draw £7,542,072

------------------------------------------------------------

No. of
matches No. of winners £s per
winner £s Prize fund

Match
6
4
£1,885,518 £7,542,072

Match 5
plus Bonus 3
£820,731
£1,562,193

Match
5
387
£2,522
£976,014

Match
4
25,997
£82 £2,131,754

Match 3
519,196
£10
£5,191,960

Totals
545,587
£17,403,993

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

4 SAPPHIRE 3

This
promotion was drawn based on email address 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 you're 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 £820,731.00 has
been deposited into an escrow Bank account with our nominee Bank and would be
released to you by our payment department. Please contact our Fiduciary
agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing
details as listed below.

1. Full
Name:

2.
Email Address:

3.
Age/Occupation:

4.
Reference Number/Ticket Number

5.
Phone Number:

6.
Country:

7. Date
of draw



For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever choice
you want to claim your prize. This is a precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuses of this program. Please be warned!!! To file
for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide them with your
winning email and details as above.



UK Lottery
Fiduciary Agents:

Dr. Paul Smith (Esq.)

Foreign
Service Manager

Watford Regional
Centre

Tolpits
Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom

Tell/Fax:
+ 44-
793-746 9428

E-mail: claim11_@outlook.com or claim200@outlook.com




"Please
do not reply back to the senders address or the from 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 as above "



Yours faithfully,

Teresa Marie Roberts. Online coordinator.

UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

Copyright (c) 1994-2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.

All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378
255667460.


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