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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: "Mr. John woodmans." (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:52:51 -0700
Subject: This is important.

This is important.

Firstly let me introduced myself to you again, I met you durring my last summer holiday, am from the UK. I told you about my work then sorry for not communicating with you since all this while I lost your telephone number which was on my phone. All I have is your email address which I still have in my diary I decided to mail you about a business that might be of interest to you.

I am Mr. John Woodmans, the chief security officer of Shurgard storage & Security company located in London, the United Kingdom. Shurgard is a company that deals with storage of people and organizations’ valuable goods and properties. I will need you to assist me in claiming and selling a large quantity of gold dust worth an estimated $15m US dollars, which I have managed to move out of our Company to somewhere in Europe. I will give you full details of the gold dust as soon as you agreed to work with me. If we work diligently the entire project would be complete within 7 working days.

Once the transaction is completed, the total amount of money realized after the sales of the gold dust will be shared in the percentage ratio of 50-50.

Should you be interested in this project, please kindly reply me on my personal email: johnmrwoodmans@gmx.com so that I can give you the full detail of the project. Your earlier reply will be highly ppreciated.

Thanks for your consideration.



Regards,
Mr.John Woodmans

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