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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: "Notification Team"<ahmet.bozdemir@denizcilik.gov.tr>
Reply-To: wallaceanderson@5d6d.cn
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 16:09:26 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON

Dear Winner,
Congratulations! You have won £1,000,000,00 GBP (One Million Great British Pounds) in the ongoing Apple iPhone Email Lottery 2013 held in London UK. In this lottery program you don't need to buy a lottery ticket to enter and win this money, your email address was selected from our electronic ballot system with lucky numbers (75755100). You are hereby advised to contact our payment and claims department for instant release of your prize to you. To claim your cash prize email your lucky numbers to our claims process agent Mr.Sir Wallace Anderson on the following email address: (wallaceanderson@5d6d.cn)

Regards,
Lottery Notification Team.

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