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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: "UKLOTTO UKLOTTO" <notifications@ukwinners.net>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 16:51:26 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

The National Lottery

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#976) of the UK

NATIONAL LOTTERY, online

Sweepstakes International program held on saturday 30th

of april, 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:

56475600545 188 with Serial

number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
02-23-26-30-39-47 (bonus no.31),

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd

category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a

total sum of £266,375 (Two hundred and sixty six thousand,three hundred and
seventy five pounds sterling)
in cash credited

to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash

prize of £1,864,625
shared amongst the (7) lucky winners in this

category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected

randomly from World

Wide Web sites through computer draw system and

extracted from over 100,000

unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are

listed online. This

promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls

within our European

booklet representative office in Europe as indicated

in your play coupon.

In view of this, your £266,375 (Two hundred and sixty six thousand,three
hundred and seventy five pounds sterling)

will be released to you by any of our payment

offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the

process to facilitate

the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your

winning information

confidential till your claim is processed and your

money remitted to you

in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our

precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and

unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our

fiduciary agent:

Fred Lexter(Sir)

Email:freddlexter@yahoo.co.uk

You can go to our online result site to confirm the

value of your

winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-

www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

<http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do>

Congratulations from me and members of staff of the

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Stella Ellis(Mrs)

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program



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