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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: drjameswickson5@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:52:39 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONTACT=20THE=20DELIVERY=20COMPANY=20FOR=20YOU=20FUND=20IMMEDIATELY?=

Hello Dear,

I have Paid the fee for your Cheque Draft.but the
manager of Eko Bank Benin told me that before the
check will get to you that it will expire.So i told
him to cash $800,000.00 all the necessary
arrangement of delivering the $800,000.00 in cash
was made with Global trust company benin republic.

And the fee you have to pay them is $105
usd that they will use to obtain insurance
certificate and claims of affadvite

This is the information they need to delivery your
package to you.

PROFFESOR.REV.MAXWELL SHARGAN

EMAIL: globaltrustcompanybeninrepx12@yahoo.fr

TELEPHONE; +229-9386-1881

SEND TO THEM YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
6.COMPANY REGISTRATION NO EG58945
7.CODE NUMBER 0140479









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