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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: CUSTOMER CARE CENTER <info_ltb01@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:56:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR RESPONSE WILL BE NEEDED URGENTLY


Hello,

I am Steve Carr from Trinity Gas Company London and i am mailing in respect of a client of mine who does business with foreigners but he is so busy to attend to all as regarding remittance of payment.

The real details is this, His clients would want to pay money to him but some times its difficult so he needs a representative in the U.S.A and CANADA who can be trust worthy to provide his/her account details where his client can pay his money into. You will have 10% of every money that will be paid into your account and informations will be sent to you after any payment has been done to your account,instructions will be passed across to you on how to pay the balance of the funds after deducting your 10%.

Get back to me as soon as posible if you are interested.
Steve Carr


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