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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: "Mega Million" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <megacash4u@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:39:08 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON

                                                                                    The National Lottery
                                                                                            P.O.Box 1010
                                                                      Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom    
                                                                           (Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK
 
 
Attention: Email Account Holder,
 
Congratulations, congratulations!!, We happily announce to you the 2021  draw (#1453) of the MEGA MILLION , online Sweepstakes promotion drawn in London on  Friday   26/03/ 2021.
Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated online ticket number: JUCRTYRWQ  with reference number MEJ56D45KF and Serial number XPHRA456  ,Batch number CRTYUDW-DR,drew the lucky numbers: 12 16 15 11 23 40  Bonus 32
This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6 lucky numbers as jackpot prize.
You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of £1,850,513.00 (One  Million Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirteen British Pounds) in cash is credited to file CPKU/8975432876/21. This is from a total cash prize of £14,210,702.00
Shared amongst the 315,337 with (3) lucky winners in "1st" category.
 
PRIZE BREAKDOWN
------------------------------------------------------------
Draw 1453 Friday 26th    March  2021,  12 16 15 11 23 40  Bonus 32   Lotto -Jackpot for this draw     £6,804,104
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No. of matches   No. of winners        £s per winner      £s Prize fund
Match  6                     8                      £850,513             £6,804,104
Match 5 plus Bonus   26                    £22,726               £590,876
Match 5                   1,172                  £315                    £369,180
Match 4                   41,092                £19                      £780,748
Match 3                  549,274               £10                      £5,492,740
Totals                     591,572                                           £14,037,648
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Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set used
                                       8                                            ARTHUR                                        1
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  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 played coupon. In view of this, your £1,850,513.00 would be released to you by our payment department.
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing details below.
1. Full Name:
2. Reference Number/
3. Age/Occupation:
4. Winning email Address:
5. Phone Number:
6. Country:
 
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever choice you want to claim your prize. Precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program are in place. Please be warned!!! To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and provide them with your winning ticket and details.
 
Fiduciary Agents:
Mrs. Selby Dolezal
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre
Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom
E-mail: selbydole@rediffmail.com
 
"Please do not reply back to the senders address or the source 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 above "
Yours faithfully,
Selby Duffield
Online Coordinator. National Lottery Customer Care Team
UK LOTTERY. Copyright (c) 1994-2021 The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guideline. 77635 476378     255667460.

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