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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: "soqdeen@yahoo.com" <soqdeen@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:09:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: HELLO


Attenton Client,
 
  How are you doing today, together with your family? I could have e-mail you since all this while, but I did not have access to the internet,I should have inform you about the approval of your money. I just came back last week,and 8th of Augurst,2009, I got a call from the company stating that your money is still there in their custody, they informed me that they have not delivered your money till now, I must tell you that I am not happy with them for such act, so I contacted an attorney, Who accompanied me to the company,
 
As to make an arrangement on how to bring the money out from the company  and proceed to the International  Money Express for  Urgent Transafer ,where we will deposit the money and transfer it to you in your country.
 
Note that the arrangement is going on now regarding on how to withdraw the money from the company and transfer it through International  Money Express,to your address, you should kindly re-confirm your current address and your mobile telephone number,  immediately you receive this message to keep you posting on the development, once we withdraw the box and deposit it to the International  Money Express, The  officers in charge,will contacting  you regarding on the transfer and immediately they transfer it to you, they would  send you payment information to enable you pick it up from your country, so help to facilitate the procession by forwarding your current information to(soqdeen2002@yahoo.fr) as urgent as you read this email.
 
Signed
Sodiq Kallon
The Secretary



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