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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <notification@uknationalottrey.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:16:28 +0000
Subject: NATIONAL LOTTERY NOTIFICATION

  

                                                    

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

 

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nș: EGS/2251256003/03

BATCH Nș:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 3rd  July, 2005. Your email account have been picked as a winner of  TWO MILLION POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on  30th Aug, 2005 and your email address attached  in the A Category bonus ball,Ball number 6 ,Ball number 13,Ball number 17, Ball number 23, Ball number 32, Ball number 43, and bonus ball Bonus Ball number 49 to check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning,kindly contact your claims agent in British Lottery Head Quarters Mr. Alan Cross on tel +447031914170 you are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than 29th Sept, 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Note that this winning is not for any UK citizen. 

You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your claim's agent via email which is click here to send your email

1. Full name and address.

2. Country.

3. Tel and fax number.

4.Occupation. 

5. Age.

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2005 British Lottery International

MRS JULIE VAN HANS,

VICE PRESIDENT

 

 

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