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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: "MR KEVIN PAUL" <mrkevin_paul@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:44:57 +0000
Subject: Your immediate reply expected

Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME,

Thank you for your mail.The mail you receive from me was not a spam.It was intentional sent to you by me in good faith and not in any bad faith,negatively to scam you as you may be thinking because of your past experience.

Everything is life is good to be giving a trial  and surely a good trial for that matter.No matter what your experience has been in the past,I sincerely appeal to you to put it behind and let us work sucessful and together to make some thing good out of this deal ok.

Let me have your mobile telephone number for us to talk and after which I will update you with details.Here is my number:+234 - 8020882312 you can call me.

Mr Kevin Paul.


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