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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: ALLSTOREKANUJAMES <kanujamess121@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:40:35 +0430
Subject: ORDER INQUIRY

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Dear Sir/Ma,

We want to place an order for the following items and we would like to
know if you have following GSM phones in stock,....

USED OR NEW GSM CELL PHONES and ACCESSORIES
HTC
Blackberry
Samsung Galaxy S3 / S4 / S5 / Note 1-3
Iphones 4 / 5

COMPUTER LAPTOPS and ACCESSORIES
Laptops / Ipad
Memory Card - 2 / 4 / 8 / 16gb
Flash Drive USB 2 / 4 / 8 / 16gb
Hard Drive

Shipping to Dakar, Senegal via UPS, FedEx, USPS, and the payment via
secured Visa, MasterCard credit card respectively

Kindly email us with your inventory prices list of the items you have
in stock at the moment. We look forward hearing from you.

Regards,

kanu James
C.E.O
Villa 9187 sacre couer 3
city/state--Dakar
Zipcode---00221
Country---Senegal
PHONE.....+221 77 59 04 522

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