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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: Lillian Johnson <francesco.maspero@alice.it>
Reply-To: edhl25@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 02:11:18 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Fund

Attn Dear

Hello am here to inform you to contact FedEx express with your full delivery
address and phone number,with The interest of your ($4.5Million USD) will
Deliver to you this is their Contact info. Dr.Raymond Hillary Tel; +229 6802
4690

And please be inform that you are to send them the delivery fee of your fund,
that's the only fee associated with this delivery. Note this registration
Fed/124p/mtm/2013 Zip Code;AXL1415
Best Regards
Mrs Lilian Johnson

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