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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: francise ghaly <francise_ghaly28@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:20:51 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY



Hello My Good Friend,
URGENT REPLY
I'm happy 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. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist Me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretary in Benin cotonou his name is MR GREGG ISAAC
Email(:greggisaac@yahoo.co.uk )Ask him to send you the total of $1.2 Million USD which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary mr GREGG ISAAC and instruct him where to send the money to you. You are to forward to him, the following: 1. YOUR FULL! NAME & ADDRESS.2. YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER. I am doing this to make sure that this business will not leake. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all we have sufferred at that time. at the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects program which the new partner and i are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that DRAFT money, So feel free and get in touch with MR GREGG ISAAC he will send the amount to you without any delay. Yours Faithfully

MR FRANCISE GHALY

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