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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: Martin Billings <martinbillings014@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:15:35 +0000
Subject: UK Lottery Promo 2014 Winning Notification

Dear lucky winner,



This is to notify you of the release of the 5th edition of UK international
lottery promotion draws and we are happy to inform you that your email
address attached to ticket numbers 04-22-01-39-971 is among the email
addresses that won the cash prize of US $500,000 each. Please accept our
congratulations!!

It might interest you to know, that all the 50 email addresses that won
the recent draws were randomly selected from the world wide website(www)
through a Computer Draw System (CDS) involving well over
1,000,000 email addresses which was extracted online From Middle East,
Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, North and South America etc. The Programme
is being sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies, as
part of their social responsibility to unify the world.

It is worthy to note here that your winning number falls within our United
Kingdom regional claim office, which implies that your cash prize
US$500,000.00 will be disturbed through our payment outlet in
London. To this effect, you are requested to contact our coordinator with
details below for further directives on how to receive your cash prize.

Dr. Ahmed Mohamed

Email: *info.icorpration@gmail.com <info.icorpration@gmail.com>*

Phone: +44 7024015755



While contacting the coordinator, you are advised to furnish him with the
following information,

Your Full Name:

Address:

Nationality:
Occupation:

Age:

Telephone Numbers:



You should also not forget to re-confirm to him your winning/reference
number as above mentioned,
otherwise he will not attend to you.

Finally, all prize monies must be claimed within 10 working days, with
effect of this notification, and again accept our congratulations.

Yours Sincerely,


Sunan Virote

Vice President

UK International Lottery Organization

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