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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: "box@betaebsyahoo.promo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <directlottoclaimsofficeinfoservbeta@mail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 22:19:59 -0700
Subject: Your email ID has been Awarded $500,000.00 US Dollars

Yahoo! Beta Mail Promotion
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($500,000.00) for the YEAR 2017 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select FIVE (5) candidates annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.


PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM POLICY:
NOTE: Any information that is provided by winners must be correct as provision of wrong information by winners may lead to disqualification of a winner and you also have to keep your winning numbers/notification confidential, you don't have to tell any one about your winning until you have received your prize funds ($500,000.00) as to avoid double claiming which can result to disqualification, be warned!


These are your identification numbers:

Batch number....YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number..............YBM-EBS-110AF
Winning number......YBM-EBS-798AF


Please contact the claims agent below, via email for further instructions on what next to do to claim your winning funds.

Claims agent name: Mr. Ellison David
Claims agent email : directlottoclaimsofficeinfoservbeta@mail.com

You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate process of your prize funds.


Personal Information
1. Full name.......
2. Country...........
3. Contact Address..........
4. Telephone Number............
5. Occupation...................
6. Age...........
7. Alternate E-mail.........

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service


NOTE: AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM WILL BE REQUESTED BY OUR PAYING BANK BEFORE THE BANK CAN RELEASE YOUR FUNDS $500,000.00, WRITE TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AND REQUEST ON HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE.
It's easy to claim, contact our claims agent via email : directlottoclaimsofficeinfoservbeta@mail.com

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