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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: "Prince Zurma Jr." <zurmajnr@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: zurmaj@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:17:17 +0200
Subject: Urgent! Joe Wein

Attn: Joe Wein
joewein.de LLC
6-30 Sumiyoshidai, Aoba-ku
Yokohama, 227-0035, Japan
E-Mail: joewein@pobox.com
jwSpamSpy: jwSpamSpy@pobox.com
 
 
Please can you people tell me what is going with my family name putting on your website, please click https://www.419scam.org/emails/2005-05/05/175892.1.htm  if my family eated your money or cheated you or anybody, we want to know because we will not take this issue lightly or if you people do not tell me what is gonig, we will forward this site to FBI e-mail.
 
If you people doesnot have a job, please create one than damaging peoples image, but if this mail did not deleted within 24hours.
 
Zurma's Family

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