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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: "alibaba group of company." <alibabafashionandarts@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alibabagroup_incorporation@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:02:32 +0000
Subject: CIAO


Hello,
How are you doing. I am mailing you to bring you a proposal concerning
my company and i hope this finds you in good piece.My
company deals in sales and just recently in the exportation of African
Arts and Fashion, we are growing and expanding, we
have branches and offices in 16 countries in Africa and we just opened
and outlet in Lanarkshire U.K.from where we make our international
correspondence.The purpose of my mail today is to bring you a proposal that
will mutually benefit both our company
and our representatives abroad which i would like to propose to you as.

Currently we do not have representatives in Your country where our
market seems to have a promising growth, in the last 3 months we have
recorded a 70 percent increase in sales and according to demands we are
expecting 150 percent increase by the end of this year.

There is one of many few important factors causing setbacks to our
organisation to which we have been looking into
possible ways of solution and that is why i am contacting you today.
Most of our customers would like to pay with their cashiers check, Money
order or wire transfer but our organisations have serious problem
accepting any these form of payments and his is what has limited our sales
and patronage to the statistics as given
above. It is estimated that we have a multiple of the recorded
statistics if we can accept such customers willing to have such
payments as it is recorded now that we have more demands than
supply.We are in desperate need of representatives in your country who
will be able to recieve cash on our behalf and will at the end of the
week send accumulated cash to our depository account in the United
Kingdom. And this is my proposal to you, i would like to offer you an
opportunity to represent us and you will be a beneficiary of a whooping sum
as cash flows in.We have two options depending on how you wish tobe
paid.

1.You could earn monthly, for which we will be paying you a fixed sum
of 20,000 USDor
2.You could be earning as cash comes in, that is you will have a
percentage from every money that comes in, we will pay you 5
percent of the total cash you send into our account at the end of ever
week or forthnight as you choose to remit payment. for informational
purpose we rake in between 15,000-140,000 weekly on the average provided
our products and services get to our customers according to schedule
and this is expected to increase in the next few months.I would like to
know if my proposal is accepted by you
and if you would like to take part so i could let you know how we are
going to go about this and i would tell you what to do.We
anticipate openning a branch in Your country come 2007, this could give
you an opportunity to be part of our expanding network if you will, as
we expand.Let me have your phone number, Full name and Contact Address
if you would like to be part of us and earn.


Reply me via this email :
alibabagroup_incorporation@yahoo.com<alibabagroup_incorporation@hotmail.com.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards.


Ben.
ALIBABA.


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