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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: "(ILTS)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barryjagg@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 17:22:26 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION

International Lottery & Totalizator Systems,Inc.
2310 Cousteau Court Vista,
CA 92081 United States
 
Dear email owner ,
 
This is to inform you that you won a prize money of Five Million,five hundred thousand United states [$8,500,000,00] for the 2023 International E-mail Draw Awards, organized by International Lottery & TotalizatorSystems, Inc(ILTS).
 
ILTS collects all the email addresses of people who are active on the Internet , between the millions of people that are subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Walla, Gmail, mail.Cz, American Mail, Mail Russian,Indian Mail, Arabic Mail, Italian mails, and only few from other email providers. Six people are selected each year to take advantage of this offer and you are one of the selected persons.
 
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
 
The winners will be paid in accordance with the Settlement Center.ILTS awards must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of notification Draw. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
 
 
Listed below is your identification number:QE/XGS/16-DD2751144

These figures, which fall within the America Location file [ALF], you are asked to contact our fiduciary agent in the United States.
 
Agent Name:BARRY JAGG
E-Mail: jaggbarry@gmail.com

Lottery winners form payment requests.
 
FullName :
Date of Birth :
ADDRESS :
SEX :
AGE :
State :
Occupation :
TELEPHONE :
EMAIL :
 
The winner's reference / batch No :031-146-4618-750 (for Approval) .This would begin the process that will permit the release of your prize money.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your claim agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claim agent as soon as possible.
 
Congratulations!!!
 
Kind Regards,
(International Lottery & Totalizator Systems, Inc 2023)

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