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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: United Kingdom National Lottery <nkservices@aim.com>
Reply-To: mklsec@aim.com
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:09:10 -0500
Subject: United Kingdom National Lottery

United Kingdom National Lottery
(Regional Office)
Drive Stanford,SW1V 3DW
United Kingdom.

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result in the just concluded
annual final draws of the United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
programs. The online cyber lotto draw was conducted from an exclusive
list of 1,000,000(One Million) e-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer
search from the internet,so no tickets were sold to enter for the
promotions.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
emerged as one of two winners in the category \\"A"\\ You have
therefore been approved to claim the sum of GBD600,999,000 (Six
Hundred Thousand,Nine Hundred And Ninety-Nine Great British Pounds
Only) with the information below:

Ticket Number: 2747-3600-2010 188
Serial Number: 5368/02/10
Batch Number:CBSTA/7913/UK/AS
Reference Number:EAP/10/17/54/2010/UK
To file for your claims, you are to contact our appointed fiduciary
agent for the immediate processing and release of your winnings.

Mr Martin Cole(Foreign Operations Manager),
MKL SECURITIES LTD
Company Email:infomkl@aim.com
Contact Tel No:+447031747874

You must contact the claim appointed agent quoting your winning
numbers and providing the informations below:

(1) Full Names.......................
(2) Contact Home/Office Address.............
(3) Country Of Origin................
(4) Winning Email.....................
(5) Mobile Telephone Contact.................
(6)Home/Office Telephone Contact............
(7) Occupation.....................

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize has been released to you. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non participant or unofficial personnel.Note: The
Validity period of the winnings is for 20 working days other wise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed.
Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program.

Best Regards,

Ashley Jones,
Online Co-ordinator,
United Kingdom National Lottery.


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