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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: "A N." <rawaa.2007@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 19:31:52 +0000
Subject: Hope to hear from you soonest.

Dear Hugolina Rowena

Thanks for your message and How are you with your family,hope all is
well.But to the banking policy on the inherited fund transfer"anybody can be
the next of kin regardless his or her age,sex,nationality,political,religion
or social status".This transaction involve no any implication and no any
precaution afterwards has all the necessary arrangement have been made for
the transfer of the fund in my bank.Please make sure you forward your
account information to my bank for the remittance of the fund to your
account.Please do not forward another person account for the transfer of the
fund whereby after the transfer of the fund to the account you will be
telling me to wait for someone to authourized the account before my shares
will be collected in your country.

Hope to hear from you soon immediately you forwarded the account information
to my bank for the transfer of the fund.

Hope to hear from you soonest.

Rawaa.

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