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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: "NOKIA PROMO UK" <wsteam1@inmail24.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: nkprmo1@aol.co.uk
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:56 +0100 (CET)
Subject: You Are A Lucky Winner




Customer Services
NOKIA MOBILE PROMOTION
2nd Floor Berkley Square House,
Berkley Square London,
W1J 6BD London,
United Kingdom.



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held by NOKIA MOBILE UK.(RANDOM EMAIL SELECTION PROGRAMME
WORLD-WIDE).In line with the commemorating event marking our 42nd
anniversary we rolled out over £ 16,000.000.00 (Sixteen Million Great
Britain Pounds) for our 42nd Anniversary Draws Which thereby won you £
500,000 GBP. The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses from an exclusive list of 50,000 E-mail addresses of individuals
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer
search from the internet. from the 45 mobile networks from Australia, New
Zealand, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and
Africa as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted
annually in Britain, London.

You are to contact the promotions manager with details below for further
claims processing.To begin the verification process of your prize, you are
required to fill and submit the below verification worksheet.

VERIFICATION REQUIREMENT
All fields are required

1. FULL NAMES:
2. DATE OF BIRTH:
3. GENDER:
4. OCCUPATION:
5. POSITION
6. WORK ADDRESS
7. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
8. COUNTRY:
9. WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:
10. MOBILE NUMBER AND NETWORK NAME:
11. ALTERNATE MOBILE/PHONE NUMBER:
12. AMOUNT WON:
13. EMAIL ADDRESS(S):

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)

Name: Harrison Benson (Mr.)
Phone:+447024046613
Fax: +447092865408
E MAIL: nkprmo1@aol.co.uk

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