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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: Mark-Cindy Hill <markcindyhill3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:11:51 +0100
Subject: Donation of $3.5Million to Assist Less Privilege

Hello Lucky Friend,

Donation of $3.5Million to Assist Less Privilege

Me and my wife Mark and Cindy Hill won half of the record $587.5 million
Powerball jackpot. 28th november, 2012, we discovered that we cannot finish
this money in our life time. In a way to give back to humanity,we have set
up a foundation help the less priviledge people all over the World. We
cannot do this alone, hence we decided to work with other kind hearted
people, who might continue this humanitarian work, even after our departure
from this World.

Consequent on the above,we decided to pray and do a random balloting of
names and email to select reliable partner that will handle this assignment
in your country, your name was luckily selected. We have decided to donate
the sum of $3,500,000.00 USD (three million,five hundred thousand dollars)
to you to carry out any of the following activities;
1)set up humanitarian foundation to help less priviledge people
2)pay bills of sick individuals
3)Finance working capital of small and medium scale businesses
4)Buy real estate estate where homeless people can stay.

If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky
recipients,get back to us with your details so that we can forward it to
our bank, so that they can transfer the money to you.

Full Name:
Phone Number:
Occupation:Gender:
Age:
Country:
State:

You can verify our story by visiting the web page below.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/us/powerball-winners/index.html

Contact us via our personal email for more details

markcindyhill1@gmail.com

The fund will surely get to you within 72hours.

Once again congratulation.

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