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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr, Kelly Luna" <drkellyluna@yahoo.cn> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:02:01 +0300 (EAT)
Subject: YOUR BANK DRAFT DELIVERY UPDATE!!!

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank
Draft of $2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) which your
e-mail address won from the 2010 Window Live and Microsoft regular usage
of e-mail award, but I did not hear from you since for a couple of months.

However a research will be held on the 24th of this month in the
remittance department and this may lead to the return of your fund back to
the West African
Microsoft zone under Section #2 which you were group along side four other
winners .

So i have been ask to confirm from you within 24hours and to know if you
really need your fund of $2,000,000.00usd to be delivered to your address
or it should be turn over to the West African Microsoft as a refusal from
you.

If you still need your fund of $2,000,000.00usd, i want you to fill the
below information and get back to me for confirmation.

Your full Name:
Your Delivery address:
Your Contact phone number:
Occupation:
Age:

And be advice that the reason why you did not get this fund of
$2,000,000.00usd was because of the Security fee which is $360usd. And due
to the fact that we
do not accept Cash on delivery, you have been given the chance of paying
%50 percent postage fee which is $180usd and you will also promise in
sending the
balance as soon as you get your fund of $2,000,000.00usd delivered to your
address.

CONTACT ME FOR THE INFORMATION YOU ARE TO USE IN SENDING THE FEE OF $180
usd VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER OR MONEY GRAM, We are so sure of
anything we are doing and we also back you with %100 percent money back
guarantee if we did not fulfil our obligations as we regualted.

Call me as soon as you get this e-mail... +234 802 795 6244

Yours Faithfully,
Mr, Kelly Luna

You are advice to contact us with this e-mail: ( drkellyluna@yahoo.cn )

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