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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: "kristy.jamila" <hadi1kristy@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kristy.jamila@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:58:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: hello ,,



Hello my dear,



I go through your profile and it is very unique and interest to me and i greatly admire you and your personality, thus i decided to correspond to you asap and try to get to know you more better. I hardly correspond with people on net but there's something about you which caught my attention and i decided to write to you in the hope that you will reply my E-mail,soon and give Me the chance to introduce my self to you and mak this relation of ours take a step further Well, please tell me more about you General





I will be eagerly waiting for your quick response and I am certain that I did make a right choice in corresponding for the right time. mail, me back for further details, there's something i want to disclose with you when next i write you,i am looking forward to read from you soon.

with regard

kristy.

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