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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. Regina Watson" <info@jbn.co.ug>
Reply-To: dr.nicholasmemphis@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 02:51:41 -0800
Subject: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION !


INTERNATIONAL/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
FREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL
Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TAN-FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
REF NO: LT/7914290166/CTV
BATCH: LM/51390-0/WGP.

WINNING NOTIFICATION !
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We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, winners of the
FREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL ON-LINE PROMOTION held on the 27th of Feb
2019.
Your email was attached to ticket number 525-6746-1902-440 ; with
serial number 8926-45 drew the-lucky numbers 13-15-22-37-39-43, and
consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore
been approved for pay out of US$5,000,000.00 [Five Million US dollars]
credited to file NO.:NM/BC 921245/KY13. Your fund would be released to
you conveniently by our pay out bank where you will be adequately paid
be by draft/cheque after proper identification and sign your final
fund release order.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website
through their email addresses with a computer drawn system which their
email was extracted from over 100,000 companies=2019 website in the world.
All participants were selected through their email addresses and a
computer ballot system was drawn from 25 million email addresses from
Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe,North America, Africa and Asia
as part of their International Promotions Program.

CONGRATULATIONS ! =

Your fund is now deposited with your ticket number and serial number.
Please be informed that your above winning prize fund has been insured
under insurance fund policy which assured you that you will receive
your winning fund complete without any reduction from the fund for
security reasons.

YOU MUST CLAIM YOUR FUND IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID CHARGES, as this is part
of our security measure to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking
advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators. The
deadline date of this notice is two weeks after the date of
notification by which lottery winning prize will be marked unclaimed
and remitted back to the account of =201CFREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL" as
unclaimed.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent

Name: Barrister Nicholas Memphis (FOREIGN SERVICE AGENCY/CONSULTANT).

E-mail: dr.nicholasmemphis@yahoo.com

Please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one
of your correspondences with your agent.
To begin with the processing of your Award prize you are provided the
under listed.

Reference number:.................................
Batch number:....................................
Amount Won: .......................................
Full name:.......................................
Age:.......................................
Sex:........................................
Residential address:...............................
Nationality:...............................
Occupation:................................
Post held:.......................................
Tel(s):....................................
Fax:........................................
Income: ..............................

Send the above data which is required to your claim agent as soon as
you receive this email to commence with the processing of your prize
immediately.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Regina Watson
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
FREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL.

N.B. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
WWW.FREELOTTO.COM
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FREE LOTTO INTERNATIONAL IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT
OF; (Registration Z720633X).
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