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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: "micheal_stevens@terra.es" <micheal_stevens@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:19:05 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Dear Friend,



Dear Friend,

I am Micheal Stevens, from Uk working with Nigeria Railway orporation.

We have used rail in our possesion for sale specifically R50-R65 up to
the ton of 900,000 metric tons.

So if you are interested to buy kindly furnish us with your LOI while
we in turn send to you our full coperate offer for your perusal (FCO).

Direct buyers, brokers or agent should contact me on my email:
m_stevens80@yahoo.it, so long as we get a succesful deal.

Regards,

Micheal Stevens.





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