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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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Fraud email example:

From: bishops@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:36:09 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?from=20a=20friend?=

There friend,company
complement & his a pleasure talking
to you cour's these is a surprise that has change your life.
There was a meeting that was held
on the 31/12/2004 in swiss by bodies of charity & business developing fund
to the society in a total sum of 2 million dollars was donated for the society
just to help for health.
These money was later split into
four part for the luck once in which each bodies,charity,business & the
poor will go home with five hundred thousand dollars.
Mails were secure collected site
from different sites of scholarship,charity,business & poor people for raffle
draw which zona in three continent europe,asia & africa.

There friend you are a bonarfied
winner of five hundred thousand dollars & you have won a great success
in life.
congratulation
contact us to confirm & claim yuor money / check.
thanks
yours

faithfully.

Bishops
B.smith
Rev.Father


Entries to claim and confirm closeon the 30/6/2005.
There friend,company
complement & his a pleasure talking
to you cour's these is a surprise that has change your life.
There was a meeting that was held
on the 31/12/2004 in swiss by bodies of charity & business developing fund
to the society in a total sum of 2 million dollars was donated for the society
just to help for health.
These money was later split into
four part for the luck once in which each bodies,charity,business & the
poor will go home with five hundred thousand dollars.
Mails were secure collected site
from different sites of scholarship,charity,business & poor people for raffle
draw which zona in three continent europe,asia & africa.

There friend you are a bonarfied
winner of five hundred thousand dollars & you have won a great success
in life.
congratulation
contact us to confirm & claim yuor money / check.
thanks
yours

faithfully.

Bishops
B.smith
Rev.Father


Entries to claim and confirm closeon the 30/6/2005.




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