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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: "Yommy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <yommyk@india.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:34:54 +0100
Subject: INSTALL SYSTEM CARE SOFTWARE TOOLS: A MUST FOR YOUR DESK AND LAPT

INSTALL SYSTEM CARE SOFTWARE TOOLS: A MUST FOR YOUR WINDOWS DESK AND LAPTOPS

Pricing details are in N-Nigerian Naira and $-US Dollar

System Care Softwares For XP, Vista, and W7 OS:

1 REGISTRY MECHANIC - Scans, cleans and defrags your registry; optimises your system and prevents
system freeze (hanging)
2. TUNE-UP UTILITIES 2012- Frees up disk space, cleans up windows, solve computer and displays problems,
customises windows and increases performance.
3 DRIVERMAX 5.5 - Scans your system and automatically updates all system drivers for tiptop performance
4 ANTIVIRUS & INTERNET SECURITY 2011 (Full Version) - Antivirus and Spyware Software
5 GetGo DOWNLOAD MANAGER - A fast and efficient internet download software
6 WORD to PDF Converter v5.0 - Converts Word Document to PDF format
7 BIBLE CD / EZ BIBLE SEARCH - Enables easy Bible search
8 ASHAMPOO INTERNET ACCELERATOR 3.0
9 IOBIT UNINSTALLER 1.1 - Uninstalls files completely from your system
10 ASHAMPOO MUSIC STUDIO 3.0 - Music Studio software
11 CC DISK CLEANERS - Cleans all system hard disks
12 EASY MAIL SENDER / MAXPROG Bulk Mail Sender - Email sender software
13 MALWAREBYTES Antibytes (Full Version) - Anti-Malware and Trojans
14 LIMEWIRE TURBO 5.6
15 SNAGIT 10.0 - Snaps your screen
16. Nova PDF Professional - Converts any file to PDF
17 WINRAR 3.80 - An archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z.
18 WINZIP 12.0 - An archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z.
19 WINDOWS INSTALLER CLEAN UP - Completely clean all microsoft installer files
20 DEFRAG SET UP - Hard disk and Registry Defrag
21 ASHAMPOO WINDOWS OPTIMIZER 7 - Performance and Utility Software
22 SPSS 17.0 - Powerful software for staistical analyses
23 ABILITY MAIL SERVER 2.52 - SMTP Mail Server
24 CLICK AND TYPE - Enables screen typing
25 ERASER 6 - Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove
sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
When you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes
the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created
over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk
platter surface.
26 NERO 8 Full Version
27 PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY - PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a lost data recovery program that
supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
28 GOOGLE DESKTOP 5.9 - Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the
web with Google. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files,
music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer
searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually
organize your files, emails and bookmarks.
29 COMPLAYER 6.0 - A Complete MP 3/4 Media Player
30 SPYWARE TERMINATOR - Anti-spyware software

PRICE: Any 4 for N5,500 or USD 50 (Except Nos.22 & 25)

NOTES: IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ON PAYMENT
Mail to: yommyk@india.com
We accept payment by Paypal (harry1004@gmail.com) / Abayomi Ibiyemi - Visa Account No.4990006313,
or pay to GTB A/C No. 0017611164
web: www.abayomiibiyemi.nl

Kind Regards,
Abayomi O.IBIYEMI,
23 Road, R Close, Festac Town, Lagos
Tel: 234 806 489 1087

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