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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: "Mrs.Rose Savimbi" <rose_sav1@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: mrsrose_sav@yahoo.it
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:31:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT





Attention please,
This is to inform you that it has come to our knowledge that your fund
which is suppose to be long transfered into your account had been
pending here in Africa due to reasons which cannot be specifically
extablished.Owing to the just concluded congress meeting held by banks here
which was hosted in my country, we have been authorised in conjuction with
the Central Bank to finalise the remittance of your fund into your
account which has been pending all these while.
Therefore, we are contacting you to have a recomfirmation from you as
we saw your name and contact in the list of those that their fund has
been pending and we are contacting you for your recomfirmation.send us an email with the felowing information..
FULL NAME:
SEX:
COMPANY: IF ANY
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
PHONE:
CELL:
FAX:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:

for further information

Your response and corporation will be kindly needed to enable us get
this finalised.
Thanks,
Mr. MICHAEL HARNI ,
Dir. Inter. Remittance dept.,


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