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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Kang Hoon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <minakhalid@null.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 21:01:05 -0800
Subject: I am waiting to hear from you.

Hello, Good day, how are you today hope healthy? Please my English speaking is not very good, but I can write better than to speak. I am Mr Kang Hoon, From Republic of Korea writing from Home Center Kohnan, Koto Fukagawa (Tokyo) Japan. I worked as the general caretaker to Mr.Masamichi Kazama, late Mr. Kazama, his a banker and real estate developer living in Fukushima Japan but died during the tsunami disaster (earthquake) in Fukushima Japan, I am the closes person that work with late Mr. Masamichi Kazama before his death. Mr. Masamichi Kazama have a safe deposit fund of US$22,600,000.00 with a private vault house abroad and which I have the original certificate of deposit with me for the claims, all I need from you is to contact the private vault house abroad with prove of the certificate of deposit for the released of the safe deposit in your favor. We share 60% for you and 40% for me if you are interested contact me with my private email for more details (hoonkang70@yahoo.com.hk ) Read more about lost of life’s, peoples relatives lost businesses, huge amount of money, properties and many more on the link below http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/10/japan-lost-money-safes-cash_n_847243.html I am waiting to hear from you. Sincerely yours, Mr. Kang Hoon Tokyo - Japan.

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