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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: webmail accountactivation <generalaccountactivation@w.cn>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:16:17 -0700
Subject: Strong Virus In Your Webmail Network



Dear wwwebmail.co.uk User
Your email account has been confirmed to have been infected with a strong internet virus and the way your account is used to send numerous spam mails recently from a foreign IP. As a result, the wwwebmail.co.uk support team has come to an understanding that one or more of our subscribers are Introducing a very strong virus into our system and it is affecting our network. We are trying to find out the specific person, For this reason all subscribers are to provide their received advice to suspend your account. However, you might not be the one promoting this Spam or strong virus, as your email account might have been compromised. To protect your account from sending spam mails and also the virus,you are to confirm your true ownership of this account by providing your original user ID (*******) and Password (*******) as a reply to this message. On receipt of the requested information, the "wwwebmail.co.uk" web email technology team shall block your account from Spam and virus.
Failure to do this will violate the wwwebmail.co.uk email terms & conditions.This will render your account inactive.
NOTE: You will be sent a password reset message in 6hours after undergoing this process for security reasons.
Be informed that this is a recent virus and its strong and also slow down wwwebmail.co.uk Network.
Thanks for using wwwebmail.co.uk
wwwebmail.co.uk Technology Helpdesk.
wwwebmail.co.uk, wwwebmail.co.uk, NC 27244
Copyright © wwwebmail.co.uk
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