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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: "james tony" <tonyjames777@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:27:39 +0000
Subject: Important note.

My good friend,


I want to know that this is no fruad ok.If you know you are not intrested do
let me know ok, I will look for some one else.

This, is what you are going to see with your two eyes, If you want me to
take care of this transaction here and see that this fund gets to europy and
you will have to promise me tha, once this fund gets to europy, you will
have to take care of the rest.

If this is ok by you, send the other informations of yours so that we can
continue.

Yours truly,

T.N JAMES.

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