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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: "WEBMAIL UPGRADE TEAM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <onlineuser2010@mail2webmaster.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:48:07 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION WEBMAIL USER.

ATTENTION WEBMAIL SUBSCRIBER:
 
 
This mail is to inform you our {WEBMAIL} user that we will be
upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a Subscriber of
our site you are required to send us your Email account details so as to
enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box. Further
informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning
so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail
account details which are as follows:
 
 
 
*User name:
*Password:
*Date of Birth:
"Verify password:
 
 
Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated
from our database. Your response should be send to the following e-mail
address.
 
Your Admin Manager:
 
onlineuser2010@mail2webmaster.com
 
 
Thanks for your corperation.

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