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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: "Global Cash Payment Managers" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gcpm.helpdesk@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:33:09 -0600
Subject: New Order Quote.xls~Size (231 KB Total)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.7600.16385"></HEAD>
<BODY style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white">Subject: Re: New order List
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2368>
<P></P>
<DIV id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2367>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1445082440361_8467>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, 'Slate Pro',
sans-serif, sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d"
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17932><A
href="http://www.sna.cl/wp/index/Dirk/index.html">Please Find attached our
order .......</A>
<P id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2382>&nbsp;</P></DIV>
<TABLE style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white; BORDER-SPACING: 0px"
id=yiv9982235469table1 width="100%">
<TBODY id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17936>
<TR id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17935>
<TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17934 colSpan=2>
<DIV
style="BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,
'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate
Pro'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17933>
<DIV id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17938><STRONG
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17948>From: </STRONG>Abdul
Mohammed </DIV>
<DIV id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17939><STRONG
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17947>Sent:
</STRONG>Thursday,10&nbsp;AUG 2016. 10:17</DIV>
<DIV id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17946><STRONG
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17945>To: </STRONG>%0% &amp;
Solutions</DIV>
<DIV id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17940><STRONG
id=yiv9982235469yui_3_16_0_1_1444731946092_17944>Subject: Invoice
</STRONG>DS.ROT.15.048161.xlsx</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P>We hope to establish a good relationship with your company if Our company
can get an affordable price to buy from your company. We have just sent you
our prospective order file via Excel Documentation Sheet..</P>
<P>Regards </P>
<P>Management&nbsp;</P>
<P id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2371>&nbsp;New Order Quote.exel<BR
clear=none>&nbsp;Size (231 KB Total)</P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<HR>

<DIV style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px" dir=ltr
id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2373>
<DIV dir=ltr id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2372><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
title="Download attachment safely"
href="http://www.sna.cl/wp/index/Dirk/index.html" shape=rect rel=nofollow
target=_blank title-off="">PROFORMA INVOICE.xlsx<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(34,34,34)"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</SPAN><A
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2396
title="View attachment online"
href="http://www.sna.cl/wp/index/Dirk/index.html" shape=rect rel=nofollow
target=_blank title-off="">View</A><SPAN>&nbsp;<SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(11,83,148); font-stretch: normal">|</SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A
style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2395
title="Download attachment to your PC"
href="http://www.sna.cl/wp/index/Dirk/index.html" shape=rect rel=nofollow
target=_blank title-off="">Download</A></DIV></DIV>
<P id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2374>&nbsp;</P>
<P id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2376>&nbsp;</P>
<P id=yui_3_16_0_1_1446728065930_2378>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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