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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: "MR. F. WEST" <fwest@personal.ro> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:46:51 +0100
Subject: FROM. F. WEST (GOOD ROCK MINING CO. GHANA.



Dear Friend,

Patiently read this offer and get back to me as soon as possible.
My name is Mr Franklin West an consultant to Good Rock Mining Co. (Ghana) West
Africa. Our group is made up of many small scale mining families and we
usually gather our products together for marketing,

we locally mine and process good quality of 22+carats gold dust for both
local and international markets.We are therefore offering you our product
for Sale to any interested buyer anywhere, with a special reference to your
beautifull country,We can also welcome you as a middleman between us
and any buyer incase you have other companies or individual who are
interested
in (AU)Gold.

We do this at a negotiable commission.Our group also gurantees all necessary
international procedures as required in the business,note that as the market
changes therefore the group maintains the validity of the offer.

We hope to send you an offer as soon as you show your keen interest on the
above explainations. Reply to this email address. franklinwest2000@yahoo.co.uk
or fwest@personal.ro only.

Kind regards
Mr Franklin West.





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