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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: "Reddot winning notification" <info@reddot.com>
Reply-To: reddot_2010@w.cn
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:33:31 +0800
Subject: YOU HAVE WON

We the staff of Red Dot Company are happy to announce to you of your e-mail
address which was selected from the database of your email account provider
have been awarded the sum of hundred thousand dollars (100,000.00 usd).

To claim this money you are advice to reply back with the details below

1, Email address that won you the award
2, Full name and address so the money can be sent to you via western union
money transfer
3, Phone number.
To this email ID:reddot_2010@w.cn

Note: This claim process nomally takes 2 working days, all depends on you.

Red Dot Company
http://en.red-dot.org/

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