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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: "ALCOT AFTON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alcot_afton@LIVE.CO.UK>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:18:28 +0300
Subject: COOPER JEWELLERS MANUFACTURING INC. { PLEASE TREAT AS URGENT }

Greetings,

We got your contact from the Global Trade.
There is a business we want to transact with you.

My name is Mr. Alcot Afton, the Admin Manager of COOPER Jewellers
Manufacturing Inc, based in United Kingdom.

There is a product my company needs from Dubai (U.A.E) but we are having
problem from the owner of the product due to language barrier.

Our company deals on costumes such as White Diamond Mixer and Purple
Diamond Mixer. We have been purchasing the product from Saudi Arabia but
it is very scarce now and we got information that somebody has THE PRODUCT
IN STOCK in Dubai ( U.A.E).

We contacted the owner of the product through his telephone number but
could not understand his language as he speaks Arabic only, This is why we
k.want you to help us link with the man if you speak arabic or know any person
that can speak arabic.

His name is Mr.Abderrazzak Mohammad Please if this proposal interests you, do
get back to us for modalities and we will also give you the telephone
number of Mr. Ibrahim Ali for you to call and confirm if he has the
product we need, the price and the name of the product because the one we
want is White Diamond Mixer and Purple Diamond Mixer, we use to buy from
Saudi Arabia at the rate of $520 per gram and we need about 5kilos.

Assist us to know if the man has up to 5Kilos and each gram that we are
buying, we are adding $20 for your assistance.

Please immediately you confirm this email, you reply by letting us know so
as to enable us arrange for our representative that will come to Dubai
U.A.E for the purchase of the material.

We are waiting for your call so as to arrange for the Visa.

we are seriously in need of the product because of lack of materials
in our company. Once you confirm, we will be coming twice in a month.
Please co-operate with us because this is a life time transaction.

Thanks.
Mr. Alcot Afton.

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