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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: "harrisonfamily" <harrisonfamily@caramail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 22 19:02:11 GMT+00:00 2006
Subject: Thank you very much for your mail.


Dear Sister,
Good afterevening and sorry for my late response to your mail .i have told my mother and my sister about you today and my mother said i should send you the documents the bank signed with our late father and he said that i should let you know that she is very sick here and we have no body helping us that is why my mother said i should contact you and asked you for help so that you can stand for us as our late father's partner and our guardian .pleaes i have showed my mother what you sent today and he said that you should send us your address your bank account information and he said as soon as i receive this things from you i should send you the documents and and i should submit the information you sent to the bank and introduce you to the bank here then i should give you the bank contact information so that you can contact the bank here and discuss about the transfer of the money to your account.
thank you so much hope to hear from you again.
Harrison .




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