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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: "Timothy Liwinsky" <hsynyk@no-log.org>
Reply-To: mtccl002@yandex.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 06:19:54 +0200
Subject: Re: Payment Receipt | # 9080144308/05




Office 404, 2 Izmailovskiy Val Street, Metro Station "Semenovskaya",
Moscow Russia.

Attention: Email Account Holder

Congratulations!! Congratulations!!

Are you the correct owner of this email? If yes, then, be glad this day as
the result of the Russia World Cup 2018 Online Lotto and email address
free-ticket draws of the , 2018 Promotion Award has been released and we
are glad to announce to you that your email address came out in the first
category and entitles you to claim the sum of£2,000,000.00.

It is a promotional Program from FIFA in Conjunction with the World cup
sponsors like Microsoft,GAzprom, to advertise for the upcoming RUSSIA FIFA
WORLD CUP 2018. Your email address was entered for the online draw on this
free ticket number:B55607545 6152 with reference number SAJA2C110P5 and
Serial number SA5365/3 , Batch number XA87-2PY,drew the lucky numbers:
04-09-20-22-29-38- Bonus 06

This subsequently won you the Award in the 1st category i.e. matches 6
lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of $2,000,000.00.
(Two Million United states dollars only) in cash is credited to file
SAPC/9080144308/05. This is from a total cash prize of £20,250,000.00
Shared amongst the 16 with (2) lucky winner in "1st" category.

This promotion was drawn based on email address as the key identification
for setting up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the World
Wide Web Draw used/participants for the online email promotion version
were selected randomly via computer balloting from a global website
collaboration with internet companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve,
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 advertisers listed online. This
Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is done
for Russia World Cup 2018.

Please note that you’re lucky winning ticket file and number falls within
our Asian booklet representative office as indicated in your ballot played
coupon. In view of this, your $2,000,000.00 would be released to you by
our payment department.

Kindly provide following information urgently:-

1. Full Name: 2. Email Address: 3. Physical Address 4. Age/Occupation: 5.
Reference Number/Ticket

Number: 6. Telephone Number: 7. Country: 8. Batch number: 9.Copy of Your
Passport

Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your Award
Winning prize by providing details

below.

Contact Person: Name:Barr.Pearl Morgan

E-mail: pearlmorgan2015@yahoo.com

Tel:+ 601161696240

Sincerely,

Timothy Liwinsky

Controller General Copyright (c) 2018 Russia World Cup online Lottery
International Promotion Inc. All rights reserved.

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