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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: jamesadams6@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:54:06 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20Attention=20My=20dear=20good=20friend=2C=20Please=20contact=20my=20secretary=20for=20your=20=24850=2E000=2E00=20USD=20immediately=2E=20?=

Urgent Attention My dear good friend,

Congratulations!!

Complements of the day.I'm relieved to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Brazil.
Presently I'm in Brazil for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum ok.

Meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us somehow. Now contact
my secretary,his name is Mr Alstar Wason through the following address,Carre
1299,Ste Rita Cotonou City Cotonou Benin Republic.

EMAIL ADDRESS: mralstarwason05@yahoo.co.uk )
Cell phone +229-931-556-95

(mralstarwason05@yahoo.co.uk Ask him to send you the bank draft of the $850.000.00
USD which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts
to assist me in this matter.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse

of this program by some dubious individuals. Please be warned.

I appreciated your collective efforts at that time so feel free and get
in touch with my confidential secretary Mr Alstar Wason and instruct him
where to send the amount to you by recomfirming your address to him as it
is below.

Your full name...........:
Home or office address...:
Home Phone Cell phone number.............:
Country location.........:
Age......................

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the
joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy
here in Brazil because of the investment projects which myself and the new
partner are having at hand without confrontations.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to receive the $850.000.00 USD keep for you ok, so feel free to get
in touch with Mr Waon he will send the bank draft to you at once.

Best Regards
Barrister James Adams Sab.




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