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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: Promotional Co-ordinator <ykoneh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: intlproaward_dept@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 11:13:54 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION TO THE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS

ATTENTION TO THE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS

This is American / Ivorian Lottery Corporation (AILC)

We are pleased to notify you the "Winner" of our last Secured Online
sweepstakes result.

This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services, all
the email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly
selected from an internet resource database of registered software and
domain users, and your email address was selected as the winner of
$50,000.00 USD. The online draws was conducted by a random selection
of email addresses from an exclusive list of E-mail addresses of
individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were
sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers
for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over
250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the
world.This lottery is approved by the American gaming board and also
licensed by the international association of gaming regulators (IAGR).
This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the
public. Henceforth we do believe with your winning prize, you will
continue to be active and patronage to this draw.

Reference Number: NL2018 051973
E-ticket number: 444821545-NL/2018
Category: A
Amount Won: $50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand US Dollars)

In line with the governing rules of claims, you should contact our
claims agent via e-mail with your information as it was listed below
to enable them transfer your winning prize to you.

***********************************************
1.Your Full names :
2.Your Home Address :
3.Your Nationality :
4.Your Country of Residence:
5.Your Occupation :
6.Your Age :
7.Your Gender :
8.Your Marital Status :
9.Your Telephone or Mobile Number :
10.Your Winning Reference Number :
11.Your Winning E-ticket number :
12.Your Winning Category :
13.Your Winning Amount :
14.Your Account Name:
15.Your Account Number:
16.Your Bank Name:

*******************************************************
As you send the above information to the Claims Agent email address
below, you must also call Mr.Yayi Koneh on phone to inform him that
you just sent your information to there email address,to enable them
transfer your winning prize of $50,000.00 USD to you.

Also send them your complete bank account details which will be used
for the onward transfer the winning prize to you.

**************************************************************
Below is the contact details of the Claims Agent and you must send
your informations there to enable the claims department get back to
you.

CLAIMS AGENT DEPT,
Name: Mr. Yayi Koneh
Phone/ +225 5823 5152
Email /: lottoclaimsagentdept@yahoo.fr

Address/ Zone 4 C, rue Pierre et Marie Curie Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
*******************************************************************************
Please do update us as soon as you confirmed your winning prize of
$50,000.00 USD in your Bank Account.

Congratulations!!!!!!!
Mrs. Fatu Bassa
Promotional Co-ordinator

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