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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: "Tony Clarke"<tonyclarke001@live.com>
Reply-To: <tonyclarke001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:40:07 -0700
Subject:

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The attached message from Tony Clarke <tonyclarke001@live.com> (<tonyclarke001@live.com>)
was determined by the Spam Blocker to be spam based on a score
of 21.799997 where anything above 3.5 is spam.

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Reply-To: <tonyclarke001@gmail.com>
From: "Tony Clarke"<tonyclarke001@live.com>
Subject: This is confidential please
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:40:07 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-Spam-Flag:YES

Hello friend,

Kindly find a place in your heart to forgive me for verging into your privacy without your prior knowledge. This was due to my dire and urgent need to discuss with someone.

I urgently want to invest the sum of Fifteen Million United States Dollars only (US$15 million) in your country, and as such, I need a honest and trusted partner.

If you are interested and capable of handling such an amount, kindly forward your details thus to me immediately;

Your full names and address
Your direct telephone number
A trusted bank account into which the fund will be LEGALLY transferred into.

Am waiting.

Regards,

Tony Clarke
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