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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:57:24 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear_Frend?=


Dear Frend

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the co-operation of a new partner from London. Presently I'm in London
for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring
those funds despite that it failed us somehow.

You should contact my friend in Benin his name is Dan Brown E-mail :
danbrown@live.fr ask him to send you the total $520.000.00 which I kept in
one of the prime bank in Benin for compensating you for all the past efforts
and attempts to assist me in the matter. I appreciated all your efforts at that
time very much. So feel free and get in touched with and direct him where to
send the amount to you, I have already instruct him to do so on hearing form
you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy
after all the suffer ness at that time. At the moment, I'm very busy here
because of some investment projects which I and the new partner are having at
hand. Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to Dan Brown on your
behalf to receive those money, so feel free to get in touch with Dan Brown to
send the amount to you without any delay.

With Best Regards,

Barr Eri Johnson


---------------------- ALICE N°1 de la RELATION CLIENT 2008*--------------------
Découvrez vite l'offre exclusive ALICE BOX! En cliquant ici http://abonnement.aliceadsl.fr Offre soumise à conditions.*Source : TNS SOFRES / BEARING POINT. Secteur Fournisseur d.Accès Internet

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