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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: "WILLIAMS JAMES" <williamsjames101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williamj@computermail.net
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:20:08 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Dear Friend,


I want you to assist me and my partner to recieve a parkage which we
are working on how to move it out of our country down to your
country,and we promise to give you 30% of the parkage.

We only need:
(1) Your full name (2) Your address (3) Mobile Telephone number
(4) Your international passport number or Photografh for us to make
the deposit with your name.

The fligth that will be living with the parkage will be living this
weekend that is why we need your assistance for us to make sure the
parkage live immediately.

The content of the parkage is $15 million U.S dollars our conpany
Sell Bloc, Crude Oil want to send this money to our customers in Europe
through a security company and it was declare and targed personal effect.

We want to divert the money to you so that we all will share it,So
we want you to send us the needed informations for us to deposit the money
with your name to the security company that will be living with the parkage.

Please we are sorry if we have offended you for the assistance,but
we believe the business will change our life.

I wait your reply with the informations so that we will deposit it with your
name as the
rightfull beneficiary and after that we give you the:

Goods Number, Code, The Traking Number.Please you can call me with
this number :+234-802-385-1671 for more information.

Hoping to hear from you.

Thanks and God bless us,

DR.WILLIAMS.


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