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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: "bas45890 Gazeta.pl" <bas45890@gazeta.pl>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:59:06 +0200
Subject: LAST REMINDER I WANT TO REDEEM MY IMAGE, PLEASE CONTACT MY SECETARY FOR YOUR COMPENSATION AND THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT


Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay.

Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum.

Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assisting me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how because you do
not trust the deal anymore based on stories of Scam littering everywhere, I
thank God now that the transfer is successful.

Now contact my secretary in Spain, at this email address ask HIM to send you
the total $850.000.00 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
and instruct HIM where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive your money, so that we can
share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment,I am
very busy here because of the investment projects which I 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 in touch with HIM and he
will send the amount to you without any delay.

With best regards

Barrister

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