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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: "james bryant" <james_artbryant@msn.com>
Reply-To: james_bryant400@outgun.com
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:33:21 +0000
Subject: Hello Dear Friend

Hello Dear,

Good day to you, my name is James Bryant, I am an artist with my wife susan
Bryant, and we are the owner of Susan Art World .I live in London United
Kingdom (UK) with my two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life my
wife susan Bryant. It is definitely a full house.

I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me about 23
years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few college
art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or airbrush mixed with
color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating artwork on the
computer. I have been selling my art for the last 3 years and have had my
work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have MARKET all
my art works & galleries to private companies in AMERICA (USA).

I'm always facing serious diffic u! lties when it comes to PAYMENTS, This is
all my customers in AMERICA are always offering to pay with U.S POSTAL MONEY
ORDERS, And it is very difficult for me to cash U.S POSTAL MONEY ORDERS HERE
in London United Kingdom U.K, The British Government does not permit U.S
POSTAL MONEY ORDERS IN UNITED KINGDOM UK.

Right now, I'm looking for a representative in the (AMERICA) who can be
helping me to cash the MONEY ORDERS IN THE (AMERICA) and send me the cash to
me here in London (U.K), I have a lot of customers in AMERICA and they all
wanted to pay me with U.S POSTAL MONEY ORDERS, so I write you to seek for
your help, I want you to be my partner in AMERICA so that all my customers
can be issuing the MONEY ORDERS to your name and you will CASH THE MONEY
ORDERS and send CASH to me here in LONDON UK.

If you accept this offer, you will stand the chance of receiving 10PERCENT
from all the money which my customers owe me, I will or d! er all my
customers
to raise MONEY ORDERS on your name and send it to you, Then when you receive
the MONEY ORDERS and cash them, you will deduct 10% from the total money and
send the balance to me here in London UK, This project is 100% risk free and
it is legal from the American Government, if you are interested, kindly send
me the below information's since i have some customers about sending
the Money Order now so if you respond to this email with the below
information's then i will forward it to my customer :

1. Your Complete Full Names.
2. Your Residential Address.
3. Your Telephone Number or Your Mobile Phone Number For Communication.

Also get back to me via my email address : james_bryant400@outgun.com


once again, This project is 100% risk free and it is legal from the
America Government and here with the British Government, so fill free to
make up your mind and email me back with the above information's to ! enable
us proceed. Thanks for finding time to read my proposal, kindly reply as
soon as you can.

Friendly Regards.

Mr James. Bryant.



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