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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: "uklottery nation" <uknl_onlinedraws1@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:44:26 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE....

U.K National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
REF Nş: EGS/2251256003/02                                                                     
BATCH Nş:14/0017/1PD
Date:29/11/05
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR 

                       AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
 U.K National Lottorey wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on.28th of Nov 2005.Your email account have been picked as a winner of THREE MILLION TWO HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS (£3,250,000). This results is now released to you on 29/11/05.

 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bianually i.e twice in a year. U.K National lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promotional lottery is the tenth of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

 All winning must be claimed not later than eight working days of this notification. After this time 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.

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 the FUNDS DEPARTMENT in National Lottery Head Quarters via email,with Email Adress: meetmaxwell4u@yahoo.com and apply for the relaese of your winnings,with the below informations.

REF Nş:
BATCH Nş:
Winning Email Address:

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Accept my hearty congratulations once again
Mrs. Mary Anders
Zonal Coordinator
U.K National Lottery.

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