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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: "officefile202 officefile202" <officefile202@gala.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:58:29 +0200
Subject: Thanks for your past effort; Contact Pastor Urgent


*From Chief Rue Oloko Compensation For Your Past Efforts,

Dearest Friend,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the
cooperation of a new partner from South Korea.Now contact my secretary,his
name is Pastor James Berti and his email address is ( pastor_george@sify.com)
ask him to send you ($5,500,000,00 ) Five Million Five Hundred Thousand
United State dollars with my Bank in Benin Republic which i kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter.

I have forwarded instruction to my secretary to send the Confirmable Draft
to you, so feel free to get in touch with him to send the Draft to you
without any delay.

Sincerely Yours,

Chief Rue Oloko
Your former business partner*

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