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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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Fraud email example:

From: pres_lot_uk@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:02:06 -0700
Subject: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION

From: The Lottery Coordinator, International Promotions/Prize Award Department



Dear Luckywinner,

RESULTS FOR PROMOTIONAL DRAW


PRESTIGIOUS LOTTERY U.K. wishes to inform you of the results of its
Promotional draws. We are happy to officially inform you that you have emerged
a winner under our Cash 5 Games Draws, which is part of our promotional
draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 4,000,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as
part of our International Promotions Program.

Your Lottery Claim is attached to ticket number 444-33-20, with serial
number 178-40, and drew the lucky numbers 05 61 20 05 71 81 (44) to
emerge one of the Cash 5 winners.

You have consequently been awarded a lump sum pay out of £4,800,000.00
(Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) in cash, which
is the winning payout for cash 5 winners. This is from the total prize money
of £9,600,000.00 shared between 2 international winners in the category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with WORLD WIDE CASH CHANGE LTD insured in your
name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names
of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly
from public notice until the process of transferring yourclaims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our
security

protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/no
participants of this program.

Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin your claims process,
for due processing and remittance of your prize money to your designated
account of your choice.


MR. GARY BLACKWELL
WORLD WIDE CASH CHANGE LTD
FAX: + 44 7092862213
FAX: + 44 2075043761
EMAIL: foreignservicedirector_5@yahoo.co.uk

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or fax within a week

of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, Find below your reference
number, remember to quote this number in every one of your correspondence
with your claims agent/Company.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PL44125645

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.


Sincerely,

LOTTERY COORDINATOR
PRESTIGIUOS LOTTERY U.K
73 BELGRAVE ROAD
LONDON
ENGLAND
SW1V 2BB
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: 44 2070601803
FAX: 447092861175

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification.

Please do not reply to this Email. Contact your claims agent Mr.Gary
Blackwell with this email:foreignservicedirector_5@yahoo.co.uk.
(TERMS ANDCONDITIONS APPLY)





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