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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: "Business Partnership" <gllhl76@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:19:37 +0200
Subject: Please Treat as Urgent.


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Dear Sir,

This morning, we got an information that a late customer (Mr. Chung
Timothy's)account will be closed and the funds in it will be confiscated by
the bank if the customer next of kin does not come up to make claim for the
funds which is 6.5 Million British Pounds Sterling (And for your perusal you
can view this website Ref:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list.

So I have decided to contact you to see if we can do this transaction
together, because I am an insider in the bank, I will give you all the
information needed by the bank from you.

This is an opportunity of lifetime and I would not want to miss it. I will
give you the details of the whole process with believe that you would not
betray me, when the funds finally arrive into your account. Also I want you
to kindly maintain the confidentiality aspect of this transaction. If you
are interested send me a reply to barryhulley@yahoo.com, and I will tell you
what you need to do.

Mr.Barry Hulley.

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