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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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Fraud email example:

From: Inforlinkin Infor <inforlinkininfor@ssummail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: George and Tina

Divine trust from George and Tina
It left for you to decide
Beloved hear from Orphans,

We are contacting you based on trust and wish that you will give us back the trust that we have given to you. We are not looking for anything else but due to your reputations and the fear of God in you and due to your understanding and your experence in spiritual implications of handling money meant for orphans. I am George and My younger sister Tina I am 23yr's old while my younger sister is 20yr's old. We are from Republic of Cote D'Ivoire residing in Ivory Coast West Africa . We are humbly seeking for your guidance and assistance in migrating us to your country and also help us in transferring the sum of 10,000,000.00 inherited from our father before death took him away from his children.

We are motivated to contact you based on your reputations, As we will like to know you more better, we hope to gradually build trust, relationship and confidence in you as our step parents. So if you can be in position to assist us in any way, I and my sister has agreed to offer you a benefit able percentage out from the total funds, but the only thing we need is to leave this very country if it can be possible for you to help with immediate effect so that we can start our school over there in your care with this money in your country and the money will be use for any investment that will be under your control, while I and my sister will face our studies until the time I will be matured to come into the investment field. We want you to believe in this same theory of our beloved late father, he use to tell us that the best are yet to come, that, it left for us to decide. that is while we motivatedly and decided to build this trust in you for you to have
that same parently love we shared with them when they were alive.

I will be looking forward to welcome your reply. We hope to hear from you based on this very hope we have entrusted in you and hope to welcome your response immediately after reading this mail from your beloved ones. It left for you to decide, because the best are yet to come in our ways, after a successful transfer of this money to your hand. We love you but God loves you more.

Please reply immediately after reading this mail just Send us your complete names, your home address, telephone number and your identification photo which we will submit to the bank director for them to contact you immediately for the transfering of the money to your care over there in your country.
Thanks and God bless you.
Best regards,
George and Tina

get back through email address: georgeandtina@hotmail.fr

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