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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: =?utf-8?q?Senator=20Abu?= <senatorabu33333@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: revmarkdonald000@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:12:29 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Contact Rev Mark ASAP


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: senatorabu33333@yahoo.in



- Dear Friend,This is Senator Abu Musa I am very glad to cheer with you once again.Hope this mail find you in an excellent condition of health. I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I'm in South Korea for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile i didn't forget you're past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact my spiritual father in Nigeria his name is Rev Mark Donald and his email address is ask him to send you the draft check of $950,000,00 Nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much .so feel free and get intouch with Rev Mark Donald and instruct him where to send the amount to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand,finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my Spiritual father on your behalf to receive those moneys feel free to get intouch with Rev Mark Donald he will send the amount to you without any delay Best Regards, Senator Abu Musa


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