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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: luis fernandez <luisferfernandez@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:43:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Pls kindly quote your Ref & Batch Number hence is a lottery programme held in uk


Dear Winner,

We write to confirm the receipt of your message just received,read and well noted, Please kindly be inform " that you must provide us with your winning ticket number,serial and your winning number, please kindly take note of the above mentioned .

As soon sa we confirm the receipts of the requirements ,we will now send to you our payment proccessing form in which you are going to fill and send back to us and we shall direct you on how you will claim your winning prize.

Please kindly act fast as we will be waiting for your response

Sincerely yours

LUIS FERNANDEZ (MR



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