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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: Rebecca Taylor <mrsbecca1@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: rebeccarebecaa@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:29:41 -0600
Subject: my offer


My dear friend

I am Mrs. Rebecca Taylor .I am married to Mr. Alfred Taylor who served
as an Archdeacon,here in ivory coast for twelve years before he died
in 2006. We have been doing our best to promote charity work anywhere
the Lord laid us to.

I have been having Cancer and now my doctor has confirm to me that i
would not last more than 6 Months due to the cancer illness. I want to
give you this fund which my late husband deposited in the security
company to help me establish a charity organization.

My late husband deposited the consignment contained $7.5 Milion in the
Security company as family valuable treasure and the security company
did not know that the content of consignment is money. So i want you
to keep it secret with you until you receive the fund and lodge it
into your account for the purpose it made for.

Please always pray for me because i am going pain because of thecancer
illness.

Yours sincerely

Mrs Rebecca taylor





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