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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: "ORG:" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gl_awardscentre@centrum.cz>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:06:47 +0530
Subject: TONY.

I received your job format email message in my private email bulk folder
and it's nice but i be fellow guyman just like you,i am ejike from Naija
but based in india,i throw formats to mugus just like you and i also
handle fellow guymen jobs,i also receive any kind of job and deal money
for guymen through Western Union Money Transfer,Moneygram and bank
transfer.

Anytime you have Asia or any offshore job contact me and we shall handle
the job well here for you to get so much money from the maga.also we get
office in spain

I also have india bank accounts,so anytime you need bank account to
receive deal money from any part of the country i am available,money
receiving sharing percentage is that i will collect 30% for india recieve
out of india 35% and any job i handle the sharing percentage is 60-40.

If you have a mugu that wants to pay you but the mugu's country does not
send money out through Western Union,tell the mugu to transfer the money
to my india bank account and once i receive the money here i will transfer
the money to you through Western Union or your account.

If you have a mugu that wants to pay you but he does not want to send
money to you because you are in Africa,tell the maga to send the money
either by Western Union,or bank transfer to me here in india and once i
receive the money here i will send the money to you through Western Union
or your account.

So if you or any of your fellow guyman has any offshore job you want us to
handle here for you or has any deal money you want us to receive here for
you through Western Union, or Bank transfer,reply to my email
gl_awardscentre@centrum.cz OR myguy2be@yahoo.co.uk .......TONY.

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