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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: "Mrs. Hillary Johnson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hillary.johnson005@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:08:52 -0800
Subject: Lets save a life.

Hello,

My name is Mrs. Hillary Johnson of Help Haiti

Foundation International. Our NGO has been taking

care of a group of children and pregnant women who

have been victims of the recent Haiti Earthquake

disaster, by providing food, drug clothing and

treatment to victims in our temporary emergency camp

in South West Haiti.

We have been doing everything in our capacity to fend

for the victims of the disaster and we have been

soliciting for funds to meet up with the need of the

victims in our custody in addition to private donations

from generous donors worldwide. We have been

running enlightenment campaigns and we have some

donors who are willing to make donations to assist this

project.

We have donors who have been making generous

donations to our organization for assist as relief

materials to victims of this disaster. Due to the lack of

available time and different forms of donations, from

our American and European donors, we hereby need

you as a collector in USA who would act as
a representative, collecting payments on our behalf.

Job Specifics:
1. Collection of Donations / Payments
2. Cashing of Donations / Payments
3. Sending cashed donation/payments to our

organization following Our Instructions.
4. Keeping Record of each donation / payment received

and sent.

Note that your commission for being our representative

is 10% per payment received and cashed. If you are

interested in working with us, reply to specifically to:

(with the following. details:

Full Names: Address:
Mailing Address/Zip Code:
Telephone Number and Mobile Number:
Country:
Age:
Present Occupation:

After two months of working with us, you would be

invited on our own expense paid trip to the disaster site

and visitation to the rehabilitated victims.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Hillary Johnson.

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