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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: "jim franklin" <jimfranklin13@ldsliving.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:28:24 +0100
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION FOR PAST EFFORT


Dr. Jim Franklin
551 Main Bazaar, Shahdara,
New Delhi, India.

Due to my tight schedules I could not contact you earlier before now. I am
very happy to inform you about my success in getting that money under
thecooperation of a new partner from India. Presently I'm in New Delhi with
the partner for the some projects with the money.

Meanwhile,I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
that process despite that it failed us at that time. Now, I want you to
contact my secretary,his name is Mr.David Green and his email address is:(
davgreen_011@yahoo.de) ask him to send you thetotal sum of ($1.500,000.00)
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 touch with my secretary Mr David Green and instruct
him where to send the amount to you. Please do let me know immediately you
contact him to receive it so that we can share the joy after all the
sufferness at thattime. In the moment,I am very busy here because of the
projects which I and the new partner are have at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so
feel free to get in touch with Mr.David Green and he will send the amount
to you without any delay.

Best regards,
Dr.Jim Franklin
551 Main Bazaar, Shahdara,
New Delhi, India.

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