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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: YAHOO LOTTERY PROMOTION <wiretransfer@live.co.za>
Reply-To: boardmemberlota@live.co.za
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:16:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?WUFIT08gQVdBUkQgVEVBTSwgWUFIT08gTE9UVEVSWSDCqSBDb3Jwb3JhdGlv?=
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YAHOO AWARD TEAM, YAHOO LOTTERY © Corporation
Thames Valley Park, Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG.
United Kingdom.
Ref: BTD/968/09
Batch: 409978E
FOR MORE INFO PLEASE DAIL THIS NUMBER=TEL: +44-703 174 3516 / Fax no:+44-844 774 1480
 
Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £820,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! 
Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held
 In the year 2010.
All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
Emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania
 As part of our international l promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently,
You have been Approved for a Total Pay out of GBP£820,000.00
(EIGHT HUNDRED AND   TWENTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) ONLY
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as
Part of their social   responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
 Further more your details (E-mail address) falls within our British representative office in
United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £820,000.00 Equivalent to
 ($1,308,883.99  USD) will be released to You through our corresponding assign payment bank. 
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
Contact Yahoos Agent for Notice of claims.
Contact Fiduciary Agent: 
          BARRISTER. PAUL PASS (ESQ).     
Emails: inffo_boardmember@live.co.za , claimeddlot@live.co.za , cliams_dptlotterry@live.co.za        
       TEL: +(44)-703 174 3516 /  FAX: (+44)- 844 774 1185 
    
            You are to send the completed verification form below to the our Agent in the
United Kingdom Whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize
 Money through our corresponding payment bank 
                Congratulations once more!! AWARD WINNING CERTIFICATE
                This is to certify that: FIRSTNAME: ...MIDDLE NAME:... (LAST NAME: ...  DATE OF BIRTH:....  
MARITAL STATUS (M).........( D)..............(S).............    
  OCCUPATION::....HOME ADDRESS:: ....STATE ......  ZIP CODE:.... COUNTRY: NATIONALITY:....
CELL NO....TELE:NO... .........FAX:NO....    
  I WANT TO BE PAID BY   (BANK TRANSFER)  (ON LINE BANK TRANSFER)
 BANK NAME..........BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:…….SWIFT CODE.....   BANK ADDRESS.........
. CITY:....     COUNTRY:   BANK TELEPHONE/ NUMBER: ...  FAX: NUMBER  
A COPY OF YOUR PERSONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENSE NEEDED 
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until
Your claim is processed and your prize Released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
Double claiming and unwarranted Taking Advantage of this program by non-selected winner or
Unofficial Personnel.  
 Yours Sincerely,
Dr WILLIAM GERRI (PHD) LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR UK.
 The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
For inquiry} do contact this email address here: baristerpaulpass@sify.com
 Yahoo! Lottery Results
Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.
 
THIS YAHOO LOTTERY WAS SPONSORED BY THE BARCLAY’S PREMIER LEAGUE LONDON
 

 
 
































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