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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: P.Trust Investiment Company Limited <primerosesecurities@live.com>
Reply-To: <barrister.solicitor2010@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:02:19 +0100
Subject: Re: GOOD NEWS FOR YOU



Hello My Dear









How
are you and your family?? Hope fine, because of the interest and
likeness I have in you which makes me to forward this piece of
information to you if you can agree to work together , you stand a
chance of receiving the sum of $5000 every week from the business which I
am going to introduced to you.









It is 100% risk free and neither
payment nor loan is required from you, all I needed from you is your
effort and Trust to each other, if you don’t mind, an acknowledgment to this
massage will accelerate my
response from my desk with details of the whole matter to you.









Thanks and God Bless you









Yours faithfully









Barrister Wisdom Obiora




Principal Attorney




Finance Bank of Africa plc




Wisdom Chambers$Consultancies

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