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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: "Mr. Amancio Ortega" <migueldios@mundo-r.com>
Reply-To: amancio_ortega11@foxmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:23:23 -0300
Subject: Greetings To You



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Greetings To You.

I am Mr. Amancio Ortega Gaona, a Great citizen of Spain a Spanish fashion
executive and founding chairman of the Inditex fashion group, best known
for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories.

I worth USD $64 Billion as the World's richest retailer in the world, I
was born 28 March 1936 (age 78) am a Business man with 3 children.

(1) Sandra Ortega Mera
(2) Marcos Ortega Mera
(3) Marta Ortega Pérez

I want to use this medium to reach out to the poor and the less privilege,
I'm donating USD $2 Billion to them because seeing children roaming the
street everyday without good food education and proper upbringing touches
my heart you and I need to help these children to have a better life so
that they won't end up been a scammer, for the world we are today is full
of scam and imposers due to the rate of poverty many of these children are
lure into this evil trend of cyber crime we need to fight them by taking
these children out of the streets so please I need a trust worthy person
that can handle this project for me, to enable me reach out to needy %10
will be given to you for your exercises all I need is your assurance and
your trust you don't need to worry about anything because I will personally
inform the FBI to monitor the project until we concluded it.

If your are interested and willing to do this with me, kindly fill details
below and I will give you further details.

FULL NAME:..................
COUNTRY:..................
AGE:......................
SEX:......................
OCCUPATION:.....................
TEL:.................
INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVING LICENSE.

God bless you.
Mr. Amancio Ortega
Email:amancio_ortega11@foxmail.com
http://www.forbes.com/profile/amancio-ortega/

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