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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: "Red Dot Award" <info@reddot.com>
Reply-To: reply_reddot01@live.com
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:43 +0800
Subject:

Dear Friend,

We are happy to notify you that your e-mail address
was selected which won you Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
in our on-going 2009 award presentation.

Your email was selected from the database of your
email account provider which was pick-out after a
random sampling. You were chosen by the RedDot Company
Board Committee as one of the recipients of this
year award to celebrate the success of the Monetary
and Fiscal year.

To file for the claim of this award, you are
therefore advice to reply back with your
Name, Address, Occupation, Active phone number,
Age and Country.
Upon receipt of your response we will give you more details
on how you are to claim this award.

2009 REDDOT AWARDS
http://en.red-dot.org

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