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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: joseph duck <josephdu00@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: joseph_du1@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:35:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: TRANSACTION



Dear Madras,

It affords me a great pleasure to read your mail this morning, also that you have to asurr me the safty of the business and for keeping it as top secrect.

I will like to bring to your notice that this business is 100% risk free because i have perfected it before contacting you for the transfer and this makes it very very legal.

Why this business is a risk free one is because all the informations about the deceased i have them all, and all the questions the bank will ask you about the late customer is with me so you dont have any thing to fear for.

So in my next mail i will send you the text of application which you have to send to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased.

Please i will like to have your private number for easy communication or you can call me on private number as 00229 97 21 99 87.

Waiting to hear from you as soon as possible.

Once again thank you for your concern.

Yours faithfully,
Joseph Du















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