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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: "Mrs. Aminatu Bolkiah" <family_bolkiah@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: bolkiah_family@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:50:24 +0400
Subject: CONSIDERATION

Eid Mubarak to you my beloved ,

These season marks peace and harmony to all our muslim brothers and sister's as we share the good faith in Allah the most merciful ,A time for Sober reflection , a time to make friends and a time to help one another as brother's and sisiter's in faith.

I'm Mrs.Aminatu Bolkiah wife to former finance minister of brunei , i wish to have your honesty and cooperation towards investing some family funds in your country which will be in form of investment.

I shall introduce some details and documents that will enable you have clear forcus of your task and obligations, with referrence to the investment i believe you are capable and expirence in funds managements.

Also I plead my case with you to kindly visit these site so as to enable you have a clear forcus of my unlawful house arrest and frozen properties inculding my passport copy that was seized during this inhuman acts: http://www.timeinc.net/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0505/edit.flush.html '

please confirm the details with me through these telephone number 006732227412 as i hardly find time to access my email within the weekend.

Mrs. Aminatu Bolkiah
Brunei-Darussalam



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