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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: Faith Deborah <faithd997@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Faith Deborah <faithd1994@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:15:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: OUR GREETINGS.


OUR GREETINGS.

I am MD Sarwar and Miss Faith. We wish this e-mail finds you well, first and foremost, we apologize for our intrusion into your privacy,before going further,we would like to  introduce ourself to you ok, we have made to contact you today and this is due to the situation we are now so we came across your profile and nice to meet you.

My name is MD Sarwar Hossain from Dhaka People's Republic of Bangladesh Asia I attended my university education at Ahsanuliah university of Science and Technology District Dhaka. You will find our photo attached also attachment of Miss Faith as soon as possible .she is the only daughter of my late business partner and very nice girl. Please we want to invest our money in your country and we need you to be our pertner. The total fund deposited in the bank is sum of (US 5.5 Million Dollars )     we would like to offer you 20% of the total sum if you become our partner in this project, hope to give you more detail ok. We are waiting for your respond.

Thanks for your understanding.

MD Sarwar and Miss Faith Deborah.

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