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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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Fraud email example:

From: sirjamesbarry <sirjamesbarry@walla.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:56:54 +0100 (MET)
Subject: LET`S WORK TOGETHER!


AGRIGAK EXPORTS LTD
General Importers & Exporters
Tower House
Hardwick Road
Great Gransden
Sandy Bedfordshire
SG19 3BJ
UK.


Hello Dear Friend,
My Name is Sir James Barry,the Group President /C.E.O of Agrigak Export Ltd .
We are a group of business men who deal on raw materials and export into the Canada/America and Europe. .We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Canada/America,Europe and Asia as well as making payments through you to us.
We are searching for credible representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in the Canada,USA and a large part of Europe as well as recieving payments from our esteemed clients/customers as a result of expansion of our services and streamlining of our official task/routines before us.
Please if you are interested in transacting business with us, we will be very glad and open to accept you into our business team with 10% benefit to you from any payment recieved from our esteemed customers to you on behalf of our Company.But all we just need is trust,and i hope we can rely on you.
Please if you are interested do get back to procurement officer, Mr.Pascal Edward at: e7pascal@linuxmail.org, for more informations. Please note that your areas of specialization or occupation is of no relevance to resolve to assisting us.
Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation.

Very Respectfully,
Sir James Barry.
(PRESIDENT/C.E.O)
Agrigak Export Ltd
Goods for Import & Export
&
Agrigak Crops Ltd


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