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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: "chris nba"<chnba234@myway.com>
Reply-To: revjohnwhite01@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:10:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CONTACT REV JOHN WHITE


Attn: My good friendI'm happy to inform you about my success in gettingthose funds transferred under the cooperation of a newpartner from paragua. Presently I'm in paragua forinvestment projects with my own share of the totalsum. meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts andattempts to assist me in transferring those fundsdespite that it failed us some how.Now contact my secretary,his name is REV JOHN WHITE, EMAIL ADDRESS revjohnwhite01@yahoo.com by sending your house or any of your receiving address to him to enable him to send you for easy delivery of the consignment to your designated address that is below.youe name..................................phone..............................................home or office address...................your country location......................because i droped a content that contain the total $950.000.00 which I kept for you as a compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me,the content is with him now to send it
to you.i could have send it direct to you but your information is not well ok with me, so send it to my secretary immediately you receive this message .I appreciated your collective efforts at that time so feel free and get in touch with him now for the delivery.Please do let me know immediately you receive it sothat we can share the joy after all the sufferness atthat time. in the moment, I am very busy here inparagua because of the investment projects whichmyself and the new partner are having at hand withoutconfrontations, contact him now without delay.Thanks for your help.Dr chris nba

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