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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: "Mr Mosa Osuman" <hartman_booker2@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hartman_booker1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:04:26 +0400
Subject: Waiting for your reply

Hello,
My Dear am Mr mosa osuman a son borther of formal head of state of nigeria late sani abacha who die some years ego. We have a sum of [$38million dollas] deposeded in our family acconut, And am the only one who have the power to the money, But now am haveing a small problem with my other borthers who want to take away the money from me. So l need ur help over this issue What l need from you is this, l want to tranfar this money to your own acconut then l will come to your country to see you so that we can use this money to esterbilsh a business overther.l also have every docments that back this money which l will send to you if you abide to my propoasl.
With all your effort am going to give you 20% of this total money then all the remaining 80% will go to our investment, Please l will like you to put all your maximum effort so that our dream will come true.
And am waiting to hear from you soon

Mr Mosa Osuman




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