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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: "steve ola" <stsalecosmetics@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: stsalecosmetic@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:56:12 -0800
Subject: MAIL ORDER

Hello Sale
My name is Mr Steve,am the ceo of (STEVE COSMETICS STORE))base in England
and Nigeria.i want to place some order from your store,but before i place my
order,i will like to know few things about your company.

1)did your company ship internationaly.
2)did your company ship via UPS/DHL/TNT/US POST/AIR FRIGHT

if this are accepted by your company policy.i want you to get back to me
immeditely.So that i can place my order to my store here in nigeria.my
payment will be made through my company credit card.and also this will be an
opputunity for your product to get exposed to some part of west
african.awaiting for you reply.
Best regards
Steve

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