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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: lukemattew22@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:46:36 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?GOOD=20NEWS=20AND=20CONTACT=20MY=20SECRETARY=20FOR=20YOUR=24800=2E000=20IMMEDIATELY=2E?=



GOOD DAY

Dearest Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success
in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation
of a new partner from paraguay. Presently I'm in Paraguay
for investment projects with my own share. Meanwhile,I
didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in transferring those funds despitethat it failed us some
how.Now contact my secretary,his name is MrOsita Willie EMAIL
:(osita_willie@yahoo.fr)

Ask him to send you the total
$800.000 which I kept for your compensation for all the
past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated your collective efforts at that time so feel
free and get in touch with my secretary Mr Osita Willie and
instruct him where to send your check Draft to.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'm very busy here because of the investment
projects which me and the new partner are having at
hand,finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to
the secretary on your behalf to receive that money,so feel
free to get intouch with Mr Osita Willie without any delay.

Best Regards,

Hon.Luke Mattew






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