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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-Lottery-Organization@uklotto-org.com
Reply-To: craig_lawson338@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:53:50 +0300
Subject: Your e-mail ID has won you US$4.6 Million


UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

Are you the correct owner of this email address? If yes then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto, online and e-mail address free-ticket draws of February 28th 2009 held in Bangkok-Thailand has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address came out in the first category and entitles you to claim the sum of US$4.6 Million.

Your email address was entered for the online draw on this free ticket number: GFJ3934HHE9 and won on this Lucky number: M373DHDEZQAP. You are to contact Mr. Craig Lawson on the this email address: craig_lawson338@yahoo.co.jp for options on how to receive your won prize of US$4,600,000. To enable Mr. Craig Lawson ascertain you as the rightful winner and receiver of the US$4,600,000.00, MAKE SURE you include the below listed information in your contact mail to him.

Your complete official names, country of origin and country of residence/work, contact telephone and mobile numbers, address, amount won(US$4,600,000), free ticket number(GFJ3934HHE9), lucky number (M373DHDEZQAP), date of draw (February 28th 2009), Sex, Age, Occupation and job title.

Are you thinking of how you won the US$4,600,000.00 without entering or purchasing the lottery ticket?

Know now that this very draw of the UK Lottery Organization in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket, online and email address draws where thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address came out among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the sum of Four Million, Six hundred thousand USA Dollars.

You will be very free to visit our website and Track your winnings online to see your winnings details and also read the FAQ section of our website and you can also see past winners photos and their brief testimonies. However this can ONLY be after you have replied to Mr. Craig Lawson with your complete official names, country of origin and country of residence/work, contact telephone and mobile numbers, address, amount won(US$4,600,000), free ticket number(GFJ3934HHE9), lucky number (M373DHDEZQAP), date of draw (February 28th 2009), Sex, Age, Occupation and job title.

UK.L.O.
Online Winning Notification Department

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