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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: =?koi8-r?Q?=BFNOKIA_MOBILE_PROMOTION?= <info@bod.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mobilenokia2010@aim.com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:14:52 +0400 (MSD)
Subject:

¿NOKIA MOBILE PROMOTION
2nd Floor Berkley Square House,
Berkley Square London,
W1J 6BD London,
United Kingdom.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws held by NOKIA MOBILE UK.(RANDOM EMAIL SELECTION PROGRAMME
WORLD-WIDE).

In line with the commemorating event marking our 42nd anniversary we
rolled out over 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great British Pounds)
for our 42nd Anniversary Draws Which thereby won you £1 Million Great
British
Pounds. The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses
from an exclusive list of 50,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet.

CONGRATULATIONS NOKIA HAS MADE YOU A MILLIONAIRE

You are to contact the promotions manager with details below for further
claims processing.
=============================
(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)
Name: Mr Mark Cole
Email: mobilenokia2010@aim.com
Tel: +447031886012
Fax: +447092865408
=============================
Provide him with these following details with which he will begin the
processing of your winnings.
1.Name in full:
2.Address:
3.Nationality:
4.Age:
5.Occupation:
6.Phone No:
7.Present Country:
8.Fax [optional]:
9.Email address:
10.Sex:

Regards,
Mrs. sarah Peters

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