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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: "Hull" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <officefile1@citromail.hu>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:56:55 -0800
Subject: Personal Letter to You..

 
Personal Letter To You:
NOTE: If you can handle the process explained below, I will send you $1,000.00 (One Thousand-USD) first "trial" experiment-Specimen for confirmation before we proceed on this establishment. But to optimize security between you and me in this delivery:  Your only required participation for this project is to accept to, "apply to register as a foreign partner" "which cost almost nothing" and once you register, we shall have the below listed advantages, which  will make our project absolutely 100% free of risk. Because this registration you are asked to do will be used to link you up as a partner with a reputable Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) who will affiliate you are one of their representative, and that will legalize you  to receive the weekly $40,000.00  by transfer without questions from any authority.
As we all know, if you DO NOT REGISTER, it will even be a hazardous attempt trying to send even the first experiment of $1,000. to you.So
i) IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH  THE  "NGO" SERVICE: No delay will occur in this transaction while on transit to you, because no
transaction will be -re-inspected in your Country point of entry - because an official stamp will be placed on it for modification. (
"inspected and verified).
(ii) IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH  THE  "NGO" SERVICE: Your identity will not be exposed on each transaction as the actual recipient of any transaction by your ability to register.  By this means you can receive several transaction in different names and formats and that will make the transaction much faster and easier..
(iii)  IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH  THE  "NGO" SERVICE: if by any chance transaction is held or confiscated while on its way to you, you will  be FREE from blames of breaking the laws, for all problems will be linked to the NGO and origin. This process will yield untraceable weekly transaction, a process which shall bypass all security measures.
As about to retire from the ministerial works, I wish to make little-by-little investment in your town by delivering a token of $40,000.00 (Forty Thousand Dollars) weekly to enable you mortgage a House for me, which after full payment will be rented out to individual for little profits. After one successful purchase the first house, another follows. i will also like to keep this transaction very low,sealed-lips and confidential only between me and you.
This weekly transaction will be sent to via secured-transfer-service system whereby our identities will be solely protected.
Lastly, on getting your address if you can handle this, i will send you one sample copy of this transaction for your confirmation before we proceed. Finally, as my supervisor over there, I will pay you 20% of total amount you received and offer you free accommodation in one of the Houses.
(1) Complete Name AND FULL address/Phone Number (DO NOT SEND ANY INFORMATION IF YOU DO NOT REGISTER WITH THE NGO, SUCH INFORMATION WILL NOT BE PROCESSED)
All the best while i wait to hear from you.
Mr. Steven Hull

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