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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: DAVOG INVESTMENT INC <davogantonia@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:10:39 +0900
Subject: ORDER NEEDED FOR DAVOG INVESTMENT INC

Hello, DAVOG INVESTMENT INC. will like to order some of your products to Japan. For the shipping, there is this company that a client used to ship for us sometimes ago, ever since then we no longer have shipping problems, their service is very good, fast, reliable and secured when it comes to shipping to Tokyo, Japan. Finally our payment term will be Credit card,also kindly do include your Web-Site so that we can proceed with product needed or attach the avialable you have in stock. We await your quick response.

Moore Investement Inc.
3F, Mizuho Building,
4-10-2 Kamiosaki,
Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo,
141-0021 Japan
Regards,
Antonio Galvao Silva.



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