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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: "Dr. Ferdnard Alicho" <fmiaffairs@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:07:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Raise the funds and get back to me


Dear Justin,

Thanks for your email, I was working on my laptop when you send this mail
and I decided to reply you instantly, Its nice that you have raised the
funds, I am sure that as soon you send the funds, the $25Million will be
into your account with 48 hours. and again take my word, this will be the
final payment to conclude this transaction, I assured you that.

I hereby advice you to desist from sending emails to this address
prof.charles_soludo@yahoo.com, it has being hijacked by criminal password
hackers, also ingnore any mail from it, because they may decide to use the
old email for their selfish purposes, here is the current email of prof
charles soludo realprof_charles_soludo@yahoo.com always send mail through
this email, you have being well informed. again comfirm this email to this
new address.

Best Regards and Remain blessed.

>From: "Justin Thyme" <justin_thyme@inoutbox.com>
>Reply-To: justinthym@googlemail.com
>Subject: Re: Raise the funds and get back to me
>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:52:28 +0100
>
>Dear Professor Soludo,
>
>I have now secured the required fees of $50,000 please advise secure bank
>account details so I can
>
>transfer the funds to you as quickly as possible.
>
>Once that is done can you confirm this will be the final payment I need to
>make to secure the transfer of
>
>the $25Million into my trust,
>
>If necessary you can call me on my work number - +1 (425)906-3449 - and be
>patient, if I am on the
>
>phone it will let me know there is a call waiting and put you on hold, I
>will try and get off the phone as
>
>soon as I can.
>
>yours
>
>Justin Thyme
>
>____________________________________________________________________________
>
>>On 6/28/06, Professor Charles Soludo <prof.charles_soludo@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>
>>Dear Justin,
>>
>>Once you have raised the necessary funds to finalise the transfer please
>get back to me
>>and I will give you the bank account details to transfer the money into.
>>
>>yours
>>
>>Professor Charles Soludo

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