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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: joy henry <tudihenry12@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: joyhenry1@live.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:24:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: My name is miss joy henry.


My Dear.
Greeting to you dear.
My name is miss joy henry.
I am creative,educated, romantic and loyal.I am on my serious searching for a friend, partner or lover,A lover that will be honest,caring,understanding and nice. your profile speckled my interest and i will like to know you the more, if you don't mind Or you have being in marriage Or not i will like you to send an email to my private email adress here ( joyhenry1@live.com )and tell me more about you
Take care and God bless you.
yours in love joy.
am waiting to hear from you in my email here
( joyhenry1@live.com )


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我親愛的。
賀卡給你親愛的。
我的名字是亨利錯過的喜悅。
我的創意，有文化，浪漫和loyal.I我的朋友，合作夥伴或情人，情人，將誠實，關愛，理解和尼斯嚴重搜索。您的個人資料灑滿我的興趣，我會想知道你，如果你不介意，還是你有在結婚或不，我會像你我的私人電子郵件地址發送電子郵件（joyhenry1@live.com）並告訴我更多關於您的
多保重，上帝保佑你。
你在愛的喜悅。
我等待聽到你在我這裡的電子郵件
（joyhenry1@live.com）

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