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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: product notification <product.notification2000@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:15:31 +0000
Subject: Re

Good day,

I have emailed you earlier without a response. In my first email I
mentioned about my late client( mrs.Carolinas Hoffmann, her
americanaddress given to my chamber:1495 W. Longview Ave, Suite
108,Mansfield,OH 44900,home phone :+1 614 774-55449. )

I tried all i could to locate her relatives with these address above
but all to no avail.I am compelled to contact you over this issue if
you could help and locate any of her relatives, because i would not
want the bank to push my late client's funds amount $2.5 million
dollars into the bank treasury as unclaimed inheritance because she is
a foreigner.please note, this is geniue and needed an urgent
treatmentbecause i was called three days back by BTCI bank director
that after their final auditing for the year they would confiscate the
whole funds.

I would advice incase you could not be able to locate her family
members we go to seek for claim of this funds hence all information is
with me being her lawyer here in lome rep of Togo, we can use part of
this funds into orphan homes, i think God will not punish us if we use
some part to help them, is better than to loss this funds to
government of this country.

secret information about her;she was a member of Heidelberg's plant
here in togo, handling plants project, you can view the
sitehttp://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/heidelberg-cement-invests-250m-in-togo-plant

Your Full Names:....................
Residential Address:................
Private Email Address...............
Telephone/fax Numbers:..............
Age:................................
Occupation:.........................
Marital status......................

Yours faithfully,

Barrister.Lewis martins.
Email: barrlewis_martins@yahoo.com
Tel:+228 96 14 77 55.

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