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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 Angela Cole" <notification@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: eurogame2010@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:19:18 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Prize Claims





Dear Internet User,
Prize Claim

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Internet Promotional
Draws. This is a reward program for the patronage of

internet services and all email addresses entered for this promotional
draws were randomly selected from an internet resource

database of of registered software and domain users.

Your email address was selected in the Category "A?with Reference Number
919347/881-5, and this qualifies you to be the

recipient of the grand prize award sum of $500,000.00 (Five hundred
thousand dollars). The payout of this cash prize to you

will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you
are the bonafide owner of the winning email

address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish
contact with your designated claims agent via email

or telephone with the particulars below:

***********************************************
CLAIMS AGENT
Name: Mr. Hilary Brown
Tel: + 44 704 5726174
Email: eurogame2010@yahoo.com.hk
Foreign Claims Agent London Office.
***********************************************

You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the
following information for processing the payment of

your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this
notice will result in the revision of award. Hence,

you should commence your claims process immediately, by contacting the
claims agent who would be guiding you through the

Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing
your payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Angela Cole
Lottery Co-ordinator.

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