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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: "T-MOBILE GROUP" <info@tmobile.com>
Reply-To: tmobile.group@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:49:00 +0800
Subject: AWARD NOTTIFICATION FROM T-MOBILE

Customer Services
T-Mobile
UNITED KINGDOM

This message was sent from T-Mobile to you,
You just won a prize from T-MOBILE AWARD ANNIVERSARY
the sum of 500,000 Pounds.
BATCH NO: 2009APL-009

All participants for the online version were selected

Randomly from World
Wide Web sites through Computer Ballot Draw system and

extracted
from over 100m Secured Web Sites Worldwide and your E-mail

address was
selected which subsequently led to your Winning
this Lottery in the 2nd Category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

Contact agent: Mr.Hendrix Smith
e-mail: tmobile.group@yahoo.com
Tel: +44-7024056701

Also require are;

Full Names
Full Address
Contact Phone Number
Country

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Valentina Coker

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