Advance Fee Fraud
Advance Fee Fraud (Nigerian 419)
This is another one of those Advance Fee Fraud emails that claim a cyber lotto has picked your name.
Their purpose is to trick you into sending them money by claiming they simply need an advance fee for wiring you the money.
They may in fact wire you a small sum of money for the advance fee, but then take the money back within the 3 day time period. Some companies let the person transferring the money to change their mind within a 3 days, which makes it look like you have money in the account, but you can’t access it!
Here is the advance fee fraud email I received today - it’s confidential (so they say):
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY “A” WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of our Lottery International Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 942,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.
Cyber Lotto
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category “A” with the following numbers attached Ref Number:PW 433 ES 31,Batch Number: 5622-NT and Ticket Number: PP 321 /544
You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category “A” winners with the information below:
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Name: Scott Micheals
Email: surf_claims@yahoo.de
phone: +31-616853427
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You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality: Age: Occupation:NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained. Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
Lottery Coordinator.
Thank you and congratulations!!!Again, it’s a big scam and DO NOT give them an Advance Fee!
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March 21st, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I have been doing surveys where you are rewarded with lottery entries. When I received an email from Herman Franklin to say I was the winner of the lottery I thought it was my lucky day. I was told to contact Barrister Clifford Bond who would process my prize. When Bond started to ask for money for certificates to get the money out of the UK I was surprised but he said unless you pay more you won’t get the prize. Bond has A$38,000. of my money so I saw my bank manager who told me it was a scam but would try to recover my money. Bond said no also wheen I asked him. He now wanted a much larger amount so I said I would report him. He couldn’t care less.They work from 23 Bexon Court Carlton Nottingham NG4 ISQ Essex.UK
Bond said he could get an investor to make the final payment but would need a share of the prize. I said no and commenced reporting.