The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Nations United <unitednatlotterydept@yahoo.com.hk> Reply-To:     agentrevdavidadam@yahoo.com Subject:     CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON A LOTTER. Date:     Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (23:31 EDT) 我有新的電郵地址！ 你現可電郵給我：unitednatlotterydept@yahoo.com.hk - - UNITED NATIONS LOTTERY DEPARTMENT No 12, Barclays Road. New York. Email: admins@unitednation-efunds.org. Winning Notification. Dear Sir/Madam, This is to notify you that because of the difficulties people are going all over the world, the United Nations has constituted an Email lottery Department to help lucky ones all over the world. Based on that, you have won (£4,250,000.00) FOUR MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS. In our online email lottery in w! hic! h e-mail addresses are picked randomly by computerized balloting powered by the Internet under supervision of the secretary General of United Nations. Your email address was amongst those chosen for this period. Stated below is the contact information of the agent, who is in charge of your payment, you are advice to contact him immediately with the winning information's as stated below. As soon as our agent hears from you, he shall commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund to you. If possible call him first before forwarding the winning Numbers. Agent Name: Rev. David Adams. E-Mail: agentrevdavidadam@yahoo.com. Tel: +447045746708. Fax: +447092858777. Ticket no: 2752246896 177. Serial no: 652-662/08 . Winning number: 08.11.21.32.35.42. {47} Draw (040SB06-03) Reference Number: IPL/4249859609/WP1. Congratulations! Mrs. Grace Lewis United Nation Payment Agent (C oordinator)   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.