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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_j_matou@live.fr" <a_j_matou10@superposta.com>
Reply-To: a_j_matou@live.fr
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:37:42 +0000
Subject: CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY


*DEAR FRIEND, I AM MR.AMAN J MATOU,I WORK IN THE AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
UNIT OF BANK OF AFRICAN (BOA) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO. I HAVE A BUSINESS
WHICH WILL BE OF BENEFIT TO BOTH OF US. THE AMOUNT OF MONEY INVOLVED IS
($8.2M) WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT,
ALL TO MY FINANCIAL BENEFIT AND YOURS TOO.THE DEPOSITOR DIED IN A PLANE
CRASH IN 1997 HIS NAME IS Bunten, Wendy, U.S. CHECK OUT THE CNN WEBSITE FOR
MORE VERIFICATION ON THE NAMES ON BOARD*
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/
* CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY FOR FURTHER DETAILS, MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: (
a_j_matou@live.fr<http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=a_j_matou@live.fr>
**) BEST REGARDS, MR. AMAN J MATOU*

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