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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: "Mr. B. B. Sakuma." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sak.72660bin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:09:57 +0700
Subject: We can do it

My dear Friend,
I’m Mr. Belhaim Bin Sakuma, Please accept my deepest greetings and permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. Due to my crumbled business here, I am interested and have decided to establish a profitable and viable business as a means of investment abroad. I do not know too well on how this is done in your country, so I will need you to help me in this regard. However, I will be most appreciated if you can come up with any good business idea to invest twelve million eighth hundred thousand United States dollars. Tell me more about your country and the kind of fast growing business there that I can invest on. I will be expecting your reply and your interest in my suggestion to enable us go into details.
 
Best Regards,
Mr. B. B. Sakuma.

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