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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: "Pacific Products Inc." <johnson.atpacific@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: pacificconsulting.inc@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:49:16 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Order Shipment Inquiry.


Hello Sales,

We are interested in some of your products and we want to place an order today but firstly i want to make an inquiry if this can be shipped out today or by next week to our store outlet in New Zealand for the up coming promo, and i want this to be shipped along with the order we have ordered in some other store here in the states, we need to make the order to be shipped along with the order we have on ground,

Do let me know so that i can Provide you the product list we needed,
Thanks and i will be awaiting your email so that we can proceed now, but encase am busy attending to the customers, we are four here in the store one of us will email you back with the Product list we needed to order today,
Thanks again and i will be expecting your email,

Johnson Baker.

Pacific Products Inc.
6004 12th Ave.
S - Seattle, WA 98108
Phone # 206 350 5781
Fax # 206 350 6437

 

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