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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: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <info@lottery.com>
Reply-To: payoutprocessingunit@live.co.uk
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:29:21 +0800
Subject:


We happily announce to you the Draw (#1473) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online UKNationalLottery program held on Wed 03/02/2010 Ticket
Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5377/03 drew the Winning
Numbers:20,3,11,12,21,28,bonus 31.
Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.

You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of £1,942,838

*******************************************************************
Barrister Paul Alvin.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department,OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail :payoutprocessingunit@live.co.uk
********************************************************************

Yours faithfully,
Rose Wood (Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp





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