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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: "johnjimy07 Gazeta.pl" <johnjimy07@gazeta.pl>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:40:11 +0200
Subject: CONTACT HIM IMMEDIATELY


Dear Friend,
How are you today?
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 assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how Now contact my
secretary,his name is MR.Frank Smith and his email address is EMAIL:(
franksmith@rocketmail.com)
Contact 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 MR.Frank Smith and instruct him where to
send the amount to you. 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 am 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 in touch with Frank Smith and he will send the amount to
you without any delay.
1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE.
with best regards
Barr JOHN JIMY

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