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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: "HONDA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <landybenson@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:48:10 -0700
Subject: DEAR BENEFICIARY

THE HONDA AUTOMOBILE COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
Honda (UK)
470 London Road Slough
Berkshire,SL3 8QY
REF:EL3/9318/04
BATCH:8/163/EL.

FINAL NOTIFICATION E-mail:

This is to inform you that your e-mail address have won you a prize
money of (GBP1.500,000.00) One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds
sterling in Honda-Automobile INT?L e-mail draw as our social wellfare programme,
We collected all the e-mail addresses of the
people who where active online,among the millions that subscribed to
yahoo /msn and various micro-soft window users, we only selected 10 e-mails as
our winners, through electronic balloting system without the winner applying.

You are to contact our claims officer
Name: LANDY BENSON

E-mai:landybenson@hotmail.co.uk

You have to fill in the below information for your claims
1.FULL NAMES:______
2.ADDRESS:______
3.SEX:______
4.AGE:______
5.OCCUPATION:______
6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:______
8.STATE:______
9.COUNTRY:______

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mr Johm Mills



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