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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: david James <djamesss34@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mregoodluck@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 03:02:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GOOD NEWS REPLY VERY URGENT !!!


GOOD NEWS REPLY VERY URGENT !!!
Your share of USD$5.5M my dear good Friend
Presently i'm in china for investment projects
with my ownshare 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 Account officer his name is ACCOUNTANT
JOHN E PECK (CPA) on ( mregoodluck@hotmail.com ) and ask
him to send you the total of $5,500,000.00M usd (FIVE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
ONLY)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 Account officer
ACCOUNTANT JOHN E PECK (CPA) and instruct him where to
send the amount to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive the money
so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at
that time. in the moment, I am very busy here in China because of the investment projects which me and
the new friends are having at hand, finally, remember
that I had forwarded instruction to the Accountant on
your behalf to receive that money,so feel free to get in
touch with My Account officer ACCOUNTANT JOHN E PECK he
will send the amount to you without any delay.
GIVE HIM YOUR PAYMENT CODE NUMBER TO RECONCILE WITH YOUR
Payment Ref.Batch NO:ECW/PED/EPR/00-1/1-44/2007.
BELOW IS MY ACCOUNT OFFICER COMPLETE INFORMATIONS:
CONTACT PERSON: ACCOUNTANT JOHN E PECK (CPA)
EMAIL: mregoodluck@hotmail.com
Furnish him with your informations like;
Your full name.............
your contact address..................
your phone numbers....................
Mailing address...................
I remain Yours Sincerely,
D JAMES.



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