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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: Elizabeth Gabriel <gabriel.elizabeth55@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:27:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Invitation: My Dear Good Friend,


YAHOO CALENDAR - YOU'RE INVITED!


gabriel.elizabeth55@yahoo.co.uk has sent an invitation:


My Dear Good Friend,


When:
Thursday, 21 November, 2013 10:30 - 11:30 (GMT+00:00)


My Dear Good Friend,


I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretary, his name and contact information's
are:

NAME: Mrs.Gloria Dominic
EMAIL: (( gloria@mail15.com ))

Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information:


Your full name_________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country___________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation________________________
Your Phone number______________________

Ask him to send you the total $USD 1.2 million which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mrs.Gloria Dominic and instruct him where to send the
amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we
can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in
the moment, i am very busy here because of the investment
projects which me and the new partner are having at hand,
finally, remember that had forwarded instruction to the
secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free
to get in touch with Art Hall and he will send the amount to
you without any delay.

with best regards,
Barr. Edward Ben Esq.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
RSVP Now!
http://calendar.yahoo.com/gabriel.elizabeth55/rsvp?e=GRIFF@CARIB-LINK.NET&uid=1c0a33b6-7725-4836-9dba-b3a4de188cc2&tk=Hr.P_bjRt2VMP5ppwPhNYi_5pVs-&hh=YiPnrqlpi_7gaMWEz94xd8yndEg-



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