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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: "BrownMrs Roosy" <roosybrown@yp.com.hk>
Reply-To: bb_rossy20@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:50:42 +0000
Subject: My Dear,



My Dear,
I am MS ROSSY BROWN, The bill and exchange manager in African
Development Bank, Cotonou, Benin Republic in West Africa.
I am writingin respect of a foreign customer of our Bank (Mr Jang
Seajoon) who perished along with his next of kin with Korean Air
Line,flight number801 with the whole passengers on 6th of august 1997
and for your perusal you can view this site:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list
Since the demise of this our customer, I personally have watched with
keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as
noone has come to claim his funds of US$35M (Thirty five million
UnitedStates Dollars)
The reason for a foreigner in the business is for the fact that the
deceased man was a foreigner and it is not authorized by the law
guiding our Bank for a citizen of this country to make theclaim of the
fund.So the request for you as a foreigner tocome into the business is
necessary,it will facilitate the release and transferof the funds
smoothly to your nominated bank account as the only surviving
relation/partner to the deceased.
If you can conveniently assure me of your ability to keep this
business very secret and confidential, you can write back to me giving
me your telephone/faxnumbers
Waiting for your urgent response and please kindly delete if you are
not interested.
TELEPHONE: 00229 97 017443 Regards,
Ms ROSSYBROWN


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