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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mudisat=20Brown?= <mudisatinchristlove@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: mudi_satbrown@yahoo.de
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Greetings in the name of our lord Jesus I am Mrs.Mudisat brown, widowto late Mr.Coflling Brown, I am 68years old, I am a new Christian convert suffering From long time cancer of the breast. From all indications live for more than two months according to my doctors. This is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage. I dont want your pity My late husband was killed during the U.S.raid against terrorism in AFGHANISTAN,And during the period of our marriage we couldn't produce any chil


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: mudisatinchristlove@yahoo.com.mx



- Mudisat Brown


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