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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: okosun peters <okosun_10@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Respond quickly to this mail


Dear Amarjit Singh,
I am Mr Okosun Peters,President Nigeria War Against
Scammers Agency (N.W.A.S.A) incollaboration with the E.F.C.C.Due the
restructural programm inplemented by the Government of the Federal
Replublic Of Nigeria to regain her past glory in crime matters and for
the country to mentain a good name in international matters regarding
to fraud and scammed issues,we've been able to captured so many
scammers in nigeria.Presently they are in our custody.They've been
interogatted and we've gotten enough imformations regarding their
scammers.Most of them claim to be in lodon/UK.
The Federal Government
of Nigeria has made it a task to pay all those that was scammed by
these bad eggs among our country Nigeria.You were among those that was confussed to be scammed by these scammers.And please
please fill the form below.
NAMES......................
COUNTRY...................
YOUR PHONE NUMBER.......
FAX NUMER IF
ANY........
CONTACT ADDRESS........
SCAMMERS NAME.........
AMOUNT
SCAMMED.......
THE YEAR YOU WHERE SCAMMED......
Regards.
Mr
Okosun Peters,
President (N.W.A.S.A.)




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