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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: SHELL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION <loan@loan.com>
Reply-To: <shell-funionloan@financier.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:31:37 +0100
Subject: (no subject)



--
Dear Sir/Madam

We give out all types of loans to individuals, companies and
organizations to
cooperate in all over the world at large from $10,000.00 to
$10,000,000.00 at
3% interest rate, If you are interested in applying for loan in our
company, do
not hesitate to send your personal information, this will enable us to
process
and facilitate your loan as soon as possible, fill in the following
information
below for approval of loan to Mr.Mark Philip At
(shell.funionloan@financier.com) with the following information:

1. FULL NAME:......................
2. ADDRESS:........................
3. OCCUPATION:.....................
4. COUNTRY:........................
5. STATE:..........................
6. CITY:...........................
7. SEX:............................
8. AGE.............................
9. CELL PHONE NUMBER:..............
10.AMOUNT NEEDED AS LOAN:..........
11.MONTHLY INCOME..................
12.DURATION:.......................

Contact us today and get a loan!!!

OUR SERVICE IS TO GRANT OUT LOANS TO COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
WILLING
TO
REMIT BACK OUR LOAN AT A DUE DATE WE BOTH AGREED ON, OUR INTEREST RATE
IS 3% .

Note: All reply should be forwarded to:

(shell.funionloan@financier.com) for immediate attention.

Thanks For Your Co-operation.

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