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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: "Emmanul Anu" <specialboye@yahoo.com.au> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 1980 05:04:50 -0800
Subject: PRODUCT ENQUIRY

Dear Sir/Ma.

Am Kelvin Smith , I browsed through your company wesbite and found out that your company is capable of supplying us our needs.
Kindly advice if you will be able to welcome my order and also if you
could ship to my store in lagos Nigeria Directly.
I will be looking forward to read from you so i can provide to you
the items needed and the shipping details to lagos Nigeria.
I will prefer making payment via my credit card for faster and easy
way to recieve payment.

Thanks and Regards.

Kelvin



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