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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: "Engineer Kenny Brown" <homemakers_info@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kenny2007_brown@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:00:29 -0800
Subject: contact me back through email.

Dear, Sir/Madam.

Please forgive my approach if this message comes to you as surprise and may offend your personality

Am engineer Kenny Brown a laboratory technology technician, I work with world
Bank Geneva Swaziland for ten years as the technical laboratory engineer for printing and minting before I move back to London my base, so incase you have defaced money white or black please don't forget to contact me for the solution

You don't have to spend anything, only to give me 40% of the total sum after I clean up the money with my chemical and instrument

Please note that this contact is confidential for security reason

Thanks

Engineer Kenny Brown.





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