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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: Dove Rock <dove_rock_01@centrum.sk>
Reply-To: doveo2@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:08:18 -0800 (PST)
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED.


Greetings to you and your family, i am MR DOVE ROCK the auditing and accounting section manager in AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A D B) ouagadougou burkina faso, for your kind attention. I will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate this sum of (US$39.5M) to your account for the benefit of our both families, frankly speakig, this is genuine business, only i cannot operate it alone without using foreigner who will stand as a beneficiary to the money, that is why i decided to contact you in a good manner to assist me and I want you to know that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. Just have gigantic vertical trust in this business and give me the assistance i requested for , alsoyou will share the benefit together with me. By indicating your interest i will send you the full detail on how the business will be executed. please keep
this proposal as a top secret and delete it, if your not interested.Regards, MR ROCK.



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