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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: "Tiffany Luckcas" <t.luckcas@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:06:21 -0700
Subject: INVITATION !!!!!!!


INVITATION !!!!!!!



Dear friend,

My name is Tiffany Luckcas, female, working with (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION
FOR HUMAN WELFARE) California, U.S.A. We are organizing a global youths
combined conferences taking place from 4th - 07th November 2008 at
California in the United States and in, Dakar Senegal from 11th -14th
November 2008.

In our request to invite people from various countries around the world, I
went in search of e-mails on the web site as a means of contacting youths
and organizations As a result, I picked your e-mail from an N.G.O`s website.
If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country, you
may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and
information.

You should also inform them that you were invited to participate by a friend
of yours (Tiffany Luckcas), who is a member of the American Youths, for
Peace and a staff of (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE). I believe
that we may have the opportunity to meet if you may be willing to
participate in this event. The benevolent donors from across the world and
the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets and
accommodation for the period of participants? Stay in the U.S., to all
registered participants.

If you are a holder of passport that may require visa to enter the United
States you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of
registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all visa
arrangements and travel assistances.

Below is the contact address of the conference secretariat send cc to both
e-mail.

By email: secretary.polex.smith.wyofhw@gmail.com or wyofhw-secretary@usa.com

Phone + 1-516-303-0035 / Fax: + 1-516-312-4714

Sincerely,

Tiffany Luckcas

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