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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: "lacson alice" <lac_alice004@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: alice_lac00123@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:24:43 +0100
Subject: From Mrs Lacson Alice

>From Mrs Lacson Alice

Hello Dear,

My name is Alice Lacson,The wife of Mr.Panfilo Lacson a senator during
president joseph Estrada regime in Philippine.who is recently killed in
philippine.

During my husband's regime as a senator,I realized some reasonable amount of
money from various deals that I successfully executed and my busniess in the
united state of which the Government has blocked most of my account in the
bank of merica,trying to leave me with nothing.well,
before my late husband was killed,I secretly put in a box the sum of
$30,000,000 million USD (Thirty million United states dollars) and deposit
it in a security company abroad.

I am contacting you because I want you to help me in securing the money for
the future of my children since the government now monitor all my movement.

I hope to trust you as who will not sit on this money when you claim it.i
will give you 15% of the total money for your assistance.if you are willing
to help I will send you the Authorization Certificate to call the security
company in my next mail which is the Certificate of deposit that they gave
me on the very day when the box of money was deposited under their company.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from
you soon quick for conclusion of this transaction.Email me at
(alice_lac00123@yahoo.co.uk)

Best regards.

Mrs Mrs Lacson Alice

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