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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:
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: princess moreen <princessmoreen@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:52:40 +0100 (BST)
Subject: If only we can work together as one things on the lord with good luck shall be in us ok
If Only we can work with one mid its could have been good. Please you settle down and read my mail please, See as a matter of fact I am miss Nancy Dupon I am from Angola in Africa but I have here situation that I am facing here which I thing we may handle together if you
do not mind listing carefully and read it to we understood we where living in Libya with my father and my mummy too, But there was a little war over their and that made me to lost my parents after just for the case of the Libya Late president Mama Gaddafi who was killed by the army of Libya Government with some other together with my Late father And my father was on the way to move away out of Libya before he was captured and resulted to be slotted by the Government Army of Libya But already he has told me about some amount of money he removed from the Government and put down on my name the Sum
of 7. million five hundred thousand u.s.a Dollar, So I will like to see as I am contacting you now if you may be of help to where I can invested the money in any of the good country without people knowing that this money belonging to me or the business in question belonging to me as
well And you shall be welcomed for the real deal I will come over to meet you fist so that we can talk and know what to be done okay I thank you to whom it maybe God bless
you. My Name is Nancy Dupon
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