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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Gerard Van Dijk" <gerardvandijk2001@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:33:57 +0000
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE NEEDED!!!PAYMENT AGENT

Mr.Gerard Van Dijk
Strand, London WC2R 2LS,
England, United Kingdom.
Tel: + 44 703 194 3859
Fax: + 44 870 490 1052
Email:financedept@unitedrawmaterialsolutioninc.org

Greetings to you,

I write to seek your assistance to help me act as my sales representative
and receive money which is owed to me and you will be entitled to 10% of the
money yourself for your assistance. I assure you that this is 100% risk free
as I do not require your Bank account or any money in the form of upfront
payment from you, rather just help me receive this Money owed to me from my
debtors and have the money sent to me keeping your 10% from the amount sent
to you from my debtors.

The reason am writing you to seek your partnership with our company as we
are in need of AGENT that would assist us in recieving payment made by our
numerous costumers in you location.

Furthermore please note that there should be no betrayal of trust about this
as we both will need to establish the necessary trust needed for us to carry
on with this This partnership.

Please do write me back whether or not you are willing to assist as I will
honestly wait for your response to my proposal.

Upon receipt of this mail I will require you to send me these details below
to enable me minister you to our company staff and board of Director that
you are our located Agent so that they can accredit you into our data base.

DETAILS REQUIRED.

1. Your full name.
2. Your occupation.
3. Your age.
4. Your resident/postal address.
5. Your phone / (fax number if available.)

As soon as I get these information we will commerce this transaction at
once, which in no doubt will be concluded within one week and we have our
money quietly without any alarm or problems. I will send you my contact
number upon receipt of your details so that we can discuss.

Best Regard,

God Bless,

Mr.Gerard Van Dijk


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