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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: "stewards bowen" <stbowen75@msn.com>
Reply-To: stewardbowen@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:58:26 +0000
Subject: Respected One

GLOBAL FINANCES (UK) LIMITED
RC1220
Dear Respected One

It a great pleasure getting accros to you for a very
profitable and essential i might not know you either
seen your personality but i got respectively through
my private search.Am the manager of (GLOBAL FINANCES
LIMITED (UK).The Int!Ended Business is thus,we had a
customer,A Foreigner resident in London he was a
contractor with with the Government parastaters who
deposited the sum of $25 million USD (Twenty Five
Million US Dollars) In our Financial firm for safe
keeping.

But sadly, He died five years back The Deceased
Mr.Morris Thompson 61 years,of Fairbanks, Alaska
America who died on January 31st 2000 with Alaska
Airlines Flight 261.You can as well confirm it by
yourself under stated Website of the incident

<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/>

and if you want to know more about the man himself,
you can check
<http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html>

Until date non of his next of kin in respect as come
forward to claim the funds having noticed this I, in
collaboration with one other top officials of (GFL)
have covered is file all this long now need you (Been
a Foreigner) to be fronted as his Next Of Kin and we
shall arrange with an attorney that will work and
provide you with all the required document to attest
to the claim while we will use our position to make
sure that you are approve as above and the whole
procedures will last only Ten days to get the funds
retrieved and transfer successfully without trace even
in future your response only what we waiting for as we
have arranged all neccessity.

As soon as you got the message,kindly get back to me
indicating your sincere interest,then i will explain
in details of the deal only at your response which
happen to be the only thing that would matter to
ensure that the deal is successfully concluded for
your assistance we have agreed to give you 30% of the
total sum at the end of the transaction.It is no risk
and a brighting future for we both. With your maximum
co-operation this transaction is not expected to last!
for more than 10 working days.

All correspondent towards this transaction will be
through E-mail and limited phone.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me
by return mail.Please note that all necessary
arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to
you has been finalised. We will discuss much in
details when I do receive your response.Please in your
response include your telephone number for easy
communication
Best Regards
Stewards Bowen.


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