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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: <mary_kc02@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: p_de030@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:14:37 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Proposal to invest my fund

Dear respected one,
I am miss Mary Magda, 18 years, from Egypt. The only child of my parents, Mr and Mrs Salam Magda who died in a Swiss plane crash last time killing those on board.
You can check on this site :
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

Please my dear respected one, I am contacting you to help me secure and invest this amount of 3.6 millon US$ I inherited from my parents. The fund is presently in the custody of a security Bank where it was deposited by my mother before her death recently that made me seek for this help now.
She proposed this fund for the establishment of ranch or farm in abroad.

I pray that the Lord opens your heart to help me out sincerely and you reply me after reading so that I give you more details.
Thank you and may God bless you as you help me.
Miss Mary Magda




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