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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Newman=20akume?= <newman_akume_6@yahoo.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR CONPENSATION


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo electrónico!Ahora podés escribirme a: newman_akume_6@yahoo.com.ar

Dear Friend ,




I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting to paragua by the work of almaighty ,Those Fund $15M of United State has been prove out to me and has been transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay who i connected .




Presently i'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum $6.15 Dollar meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.


Now contact the Dhl Courrier Service in Benin them to send you the Check total of $80.000.00 which i kept for the Dhl Courrier Service on courrierservicebj@netcourrier.com your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with Dhl Courrier Service and instruct him where to send the amount to you.




Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the Dhl Courrier Service on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Dhl Courrier Service, he will send the Check to you without any delay.




Regards,


Newman Akume

- Newman akume


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