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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 CUSTOMER PROMO 2016" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <acccount@accountant.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:01:05 -0800
Subject: Re: THE FACEBOOK CUSTOMER PROMO 2017 PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

FACEBOOK SOCIAL MEDIA
FACEBOOK CUSTOMER PROMO 2017
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

THE FACEBOOK CUSTOMER PROMO 2017 PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded,final draws held on (30th January, 2017) by Facebook Company.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world This Lottery is approved by the USA, UNITED NATION, IMF, WORLD BANK Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

Your email was among 4 Lucky winners who won $1,500,000.00(One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)each in the THE FACEBOOK SOCIAL MEDIA CUSTOMER PROMO 2017 .However the results were released on (30th January, 2017) and your email was attached with the follwings:

Ref Number: FB DN 0508-9T6,
Batch Number:FBSMP-3LJ4,
Winning Number: #217716
Serial Number: 20910,

Your Full Name:
Your Full Address:
Sex:
Occupation:
Tel:

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Congratulations once again On behalf of the staff And Members Of the FACEBOOK SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY and therefore advised you to keep your winning information confidential and restrict from third Party to avoid double or false claims of your winning

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Linda Scott
Promotion Manager.
FACEBOOK COMPANY
FACEBOOK SOCILA MEDIA CUSTOMER PROMO 2017

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