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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: ''OWEN'' <kevin7@office12a.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <kevinyoung147@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:11:11 +0530
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE

Dear friend,

Compliment and greetings of the day!
I am Kevin Young, researcher/consultant of pharmaceutical product working with a pharmaceutical company here in London. I came across your e-mail contact during a comprehensive web research in Indian sites and its my pleasure to contact you for a mutual business relation and I wish this mail will find you in good health and prosperity!I have a business offer which I would like to share with you for a clear understanding and adequate collaboration, hope you will find it extremely reasonable. I do visit India previously, in respective of purchasing some local Herbal materials for productions in our company when I was working under the procuring department. I was promoted in our company as the new production supervisor and I will no longer visit India to purchase those materials by myself due to my promotion but our management has assigned a new staff whom will be coming to India any moment from now in other to purchase the same materials from the same source. I will give you more details about this product and also the reason why i needed your attention as soon as I see your response through my personal email address bellow and i will furnish you with every details and procedures. Furthermore, should in case you have interest of corporation, do not hesitate to send your personal details to further our communications.

Anticipate hearing from you!
Best Regards
Mr. Kevin Young.
Email:kevinyoung147@gmail.com

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