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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: IT WEBMAIL SERVICE <aonori@infomaniak.ch>
Reply-To: upgreadteam001@live.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:20:57 +0200
Subject: Account Expire in 4 Day(s)

Dear Webmail acount Subscriber,

To complete your Webmail account, you must reply to this email
immediately and enter your password here (*********) if you are the
rightfull owner of this account, and help us to fight sparm mails.

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address
in-active from our database.

You can also confirm your email address by enter your address here (*********) and also help us to fight sparm mails.


NOTE: You are advice to change your password in the next 7 working
days after undergoing this process for sercurity reasons.

Thank you for using Webmail !


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