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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: Dr Ramin Razaq <r_razaq29@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ramzaq1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:30:23 +0000
Subject: reply me immediately







From: Dr Ramin Razaq

Attention please,

I am Dr Ramin Razaq the Director of AFRICA BANK (AB) Burkina Faso W/A Branch at its remmittance Departmaent.I am contacting inconfidence that you will keep this a top secret. don't be scared or surprised, i have an opportunity of transfering the sum of US$10.5MILLION (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLARS) looking for a reliable and honest person who will be capable of this important business Transaction, believinghe/she will never let me down either now or in future. The owner of this account is JOSEPH F. GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Proffession.He died in world trade center as a victim of the September 11,2001 Incident that befall the United State of America, the bank has made series of efforts to contact any of the relatives to claim this money but without success, you can confirm through this website: http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1260and my Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything About this account.I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I Don't know any foreigner,I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real and genuine,hope that you will never let me down in this transaction, at the conclusion of this business, you will be giving 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me and 10% for expences. I look forward to your earliest reply by email for more details Thanks.

Best regards Dr R Razaq
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