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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: "China National Pearls Diamond Ltd." <pearlsdiamond_gem2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: CNPDGJltd2005@katamail.com
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:38:34 +0000
Subject: JOB OFFER REQUIREMENTS.

Good day!!

I am John Xu Yang President/founder of CHINA NATIONAL PEARLS DIAMOND GEM &
JEWELRY LIMITED. We deal in mining and supply of jewelry products and
export into America/Europe, Canada.Our Head office is located in China as
stated below.

We are interested in employing your services,to work with us as our payment
agent who can help us establish a medium of receiving payments on our behalf
for goods supplied to our customers in America, Europe and Canada in view of
our inabilty to open foreign accounts in these countries.If you are
interested in transacting business with our company.I will be very glad and
subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to negotiate
your mode of payment which we will pay for your services as our
representative in your country.

If you are willing to assist,I would want you to furnish us with your
contact details, so as to enable me instruct our Attorneys in United Kingdom
(UK) to give you more informations.

Note that your sincerity and trustworthiness would be highly appreciated as
more payments will be made through you in the course of this
transaction.Moreso, you will be entitled to 5% of every payment that you are
able to receive for us from our customers.
Kindly contact us for more information with this
E-mail;CNPDGJltd2005@katamail.com with the below informations filled out.

NAME : (Beneficiary Name)
MAILING ADDRESS :
AGE :
STATE/COUNTRY :
TEL/FAX NUMBERS :
NEXT OF KIN
PRESENT OCCUPATION:
AVERAGE YEARLY INCOME :
ONE FORM OF IDENTIFICATION :

We look forward in working with you.

John Xu Yang
CHINA NATIONAL PEARLS
DIAMOND GEM & JEWELRY LIMITED.
CNPDGJltd2005@katamail.com


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