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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: faith dorman <faith.dorman1@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: faith.dorman@ifrance.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:21:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: faith


My Dear Pastor in lord

Thanks you once again for your mail and so want to ask you if you are willing to assistance me in transaction kindly open up your mind i contact the Dr of security company to know how to ship this consigment to your country


if you contact them get back to me once again ok


may God be with you and your entrie family


thanks


your sister in christ

faith




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