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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: "International Program" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <msty26@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:56:30 +0800
Subject: International Program

Asia Promo International Program
Batch Number: 12/25/0341
Ref Number: Ref:MS-SG/200-26936
Winning Number: MS09788

Winners Only

This is to officially inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million Pounds(1,000,000) for the Year Edition 2014 Lottery promotion which is organized by Asia, we collect all the email addresses of people that are active online, we select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected for the month claims.

Contact Person

Name: Mr Tommy Koh
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: mswclaimsdept@hotmail.com
Tel: +601-623-13753

You are advice to send your details below

Full Names:
Contact Address:
Country:
Phone Number:
Your Job:

we advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this program by the general public, You will be required to quote your Winning Number: MS09788,for confirmation.

Congratulation's!! once again.

Yours in service,
Mrs. siti bin ahmad
(Operation Manager).

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