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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. Jane SmithU" <"FBI."@rapid.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Jane Smith" <mr.henrychuma001@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:52:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED NATION NATIONAL LOTTERY


Dear lucky winner

We the UBA BANK NATIONAL LOTTERY COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you that
you're among our winners of MS-WORD/YAHOO/GMAIL MICROSOFT LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in the UBA BANK
South Africa BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD
ON 31St Day of AUGUST 2017

Your Personal E-mail address or Company email is attached to WINNER NO: 10
with serial number S/N-00168 drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in
the first lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of (Nine Hundred
and Eight five Thousand USD Only) Credited in ATM CARD to file REF NO:MSW-00457YGH, UBA BANK
shared among the Ten (10) lucky international winners in first and second category.

All participants were selected from Worldwide Websites especially yahoo mail, msn mail,aol mail,
gmail mail through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from 21,000 Names, 3,000 names from
each continent (Canada, Asia, Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania , as
part of International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, Which is conducted annually for our prominent MS
-WORD users all over the world, and to encourage the use of Internet and Computers worldwide.

Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW-00457YTX and will be ready for delivery. It will
be delivered to you by one of our Paymaster/claims agent Staff in charge of western African Zone
(MR.HENRY CHUMA).

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Republic of Benin Region booklet representative
office in west Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your 985,000.00 USD would be
released to you by our payment office in Federal Republic Of Benin

Your E-mail address should be used in all correspondence with your claims officer, please Note
that, you are to contact your claims officer via phone as we are promoting the use of
Contact Person Mr,Henry Chuma
Email: mr.henrychuma001@aol.com
Phone +229 666 717 56

Also you have the right to call him to confirm your winnings and government tax payment that is all.

You are to keep your REF NUMBERS and BATCH NUMBER from the public, until you have been processed
and your prize money delivered to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and the act of scamming people of their ref number and prizes.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the year High stakes of 2 .3
billion International Lottery. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact our claims
department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize money to you from Texas Accredited
Paying Bank.

To file for your claim, please contact Mr.HENRY CHUMA, claims agent with the following details,
Reference Numbers, winning numbers, batch numbers, Provide him with the information’s stated below:

1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Occupation:
4. Marital Status:
5. Age:
6. Country:
7. Nationality:
8. Telephone:

NAME: MR.HENRY CHUMA
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 12TH DAY OF November 2017.

All funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and will be seen as
forfeited by you hence will be donated to charity home organization around the world.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft Cooperation to all our
lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special
thanks and gratitude to Bill Gate of Microsoft and all his Associates for alleviating poverty round
the World.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Jane Smith
(Co-ordinator).

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