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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: "USA POWERBALL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rosemaryreed544@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 04:29:16 -0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION..

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WINNING NOTIFICATION


We are delighted to inform you of the result of the E-mail address ballot lottery draw of the USA Power-ball Lottery international program. This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users. This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World Wide Web (www) sites. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$800,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/02.

This is from the total cash prize of US$8,000,000 (Eight Million United States Dollars) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of Multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Furthermore, our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR WINNING PARTICULARS BELOW WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:

File ref: ILP/HW47509/02
Batch: 3902/188
Winning no: 4758961725
Ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05
Serial number 8756-05


HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Contact your claims agent, Mrs. Rosemary Reed via email: (rosemaryreed544@gmail.com) by filling this form below and send it to her to file for your claim.

LOTTERY WINNERS’ APPLICATION FORM.

FULL NAME.................................................
DATE OF BIRTH..................................
ADDRESS..................................................
SEX.........................
AGE..................................
MARITAL STATUS...................................
NATIONALITY...........................................
OCCUPATION...........................................
TELEPHONE..........................................
FAX......................................................
EMAIL.................................................
DATE......................................................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO...........................


APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found in this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program against non participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program. Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a stipulated time, otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Clifford Flemming
Online coordinator
USA Powerball Lottery

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