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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: <claminfo1@nhsgclmprze.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:39:10 -0700
Subject: Congratulation!!!

                                                                                           The National Lottery
                                                                                                 P.O.Box 1010
                                                                               Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom
                                                                           (Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK 
Attention: Email Account Holder,

Congratulations! Congratulations!! Congratulation!!!, We happy to announce that you have won the lottery prize on our online Sweepstakes international promotion held in London on Saturday September 9th 2017.
 
Your active e-mail address attached to the global Web computer generated ticket number: ZA55607545 1717 with reference number ZA/UK/JA2C/110P17 and Serial number ZA757345/17 ,Batch number ZAZA87-2LT,drew the lucky numbers: 09 17 22 33 39  Bonus 41
This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.
 
You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £820,731.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty One British Pounds) in cash is credited to file UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of £17,403,993 shared amongst the 545,587 with (3) lucky winners in "2nd" category.

PRIZE WINNING BREAKDOWN
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw 1717 Sat Sept. 9th 2017. 09 17 22 33 39  Bonus 41    Jackpot for this draw     £7,542,072
------------------------------------------------------------
No. of matches     No. of winners    £s per winner     £s Prize fund
Match 6                      4                    £1,885,518         £7,542,072
Match 5 plus Bonus   3                     £820,731            £1,562,193
Match 5                     387                  £2,522               £976,014
Match 4                    25,997              £82                    £2,131,754
Match 3                    519,196            £10                   £5,191,960
Totals                       545,587                                     £17,403,993
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Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set used
                                                                                 SAPPHIRE                                   3
This promotion was drawn based on active email address as the key identification for setting up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the global Web Draw used/participants for the online email promotion version were selected randomly via our computer balloting from our global website collaboration with internet companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve, yahoo, Hotmail, Msn, outlook and Google whom also built their systems and based their membership registration identity on email addresses supporting this computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies  and  affiliated members to the National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online. This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is done Bi-annually.
 
Please note that your lucky winning ticket file and number falls within our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in your ballot coupon. In view of this, your £820,731.00 would be released to you by our payment department. Contact our Fiduciary agent immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing details as listed below.
1. Full Name:
2. Email Address:
3. Age/Occupation:
4. Reference Number/Ticket Number
5. Phone Number: 
6. Country: 
7. Date of draw
 
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in accordance with UK foreign Payment regulations. This is a precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuses of this program. Please be warned!!! To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent below and provide them with your winning email and details as above. 

UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents:
Ms. Christine Jermaine Jordan
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre
Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 709 289 0163
Fax: + 44 870 495 7530
E-mail:
privatecjjordan01@gmail.com

"Please do not reply back to the senders address or the from email address, this notification is sent automatically via computer virtual notification to winning email addresses and a response will not be attended by Human but computer" contact the fiduciary agents as above "
 
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Marks Teesa Roberts. Online coordinator.
UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Copyright (c) 1994-2008 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378     255667460.

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