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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:34:09 +0100
Subject: REPLY VIA Email(mychevronoil.onlin2008@gmail.com)

CHEVRON OIL/PETROLEUM 2008
Head Office
8, Macarthy Street,
P.M.B Box 166
Abuja, Nigeria.
Call us @:+23480-507-65553
Email:mychevronoil.onlin2008@gmail.com


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars, ($700,000.00) for this year 2008
Lottery
promotion which is organized by CHEVRON OIL/PETROLUEM 2008. CHEVRON
OIL/PETROLUEM 2008, collects all the email addresses of the people
that are active online, among the millions that
subscribed to the Internet.we only select five people every Year as
our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner
applying,we congratulate you forbeing one of the
people selected.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number....................CT 091026XN Ref
number......................CT 095447XN
Winning number...............CT 097886XN
KINDLY PROVIDE TO US THE FOLLOWING:

1. Full name:.............
2. Contact Address: ............
3. Age:..............
4. Telephone Number:............
5. Sex: ....... ..
6. Occupation: ............
7.Nationality:...........
8.Country:.........


These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to
contact the events manager/Claims Department, send your
winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your claims.

Regards
Mr Ali Yusuf



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