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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: "FINANCE AND SECURITY HOUSE HEAD OFFICE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <david.mark88888@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:09:32 -0400
Subject: FINANCE AND SECURITY HOUSE HEAD OFFICE

Dear FrienMy Dencerity, courage and trust worthiness you

showed at the course of the Uk Online Lotto winning cheque
shipment to your location, I want to compensate you and show
my gratitude to you with the sum of $1.000.000.00USD
(One Million United States Dollars) I have authorized
the finance house where I deposited the money to issue you
international certified bank draft cashable at your bank.
My dear winner,I will like you to contact the CEO in charge
of the finance house for the collection of this
international certified bank draft. The name of the Person
with your Cheque is Mr David Mark.

FINANCE AND SECURITY HOUSE HEAD OFFICE
CONTACT AGENT MR.David Mark
Email: david.mark88888@gmail.com
Finance and Security House
United Kingdom Deposit Firm
FSH Towers
Chelsea T45H U.K.
At the moment, I am very busy at Sydney,Australia because
of the investment projects which myself and my new partner
Mr Peter Hills of CTL Company are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to the
MrDavid at the finance house on your behalf to send the bank
draft to you as soon as you contact him without delay.
Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith
as this is from the bottom of my heart. Thanks and God bless
you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.

My sincere advice to you as a christian is that you should
endeavour to pay your tithe to a bible believing church when
you get the money because i noticed it as a fudiciary agent
that you were skeptical about your winnings when you were
been ask by the Uk lotto Agency Inc to file out a claim for
your prize.

And now the current policy of the Lotto organizer is that
if an emerged winner fails to claim up his/her winning
cheque of E500,000pounds,it's now mandatory that this fund
can be remitted or forfeited to the fiduciary agent in
charge of this winners file.

However, I want you to contact him immediately as soon as
you receive this information because he is leaving for the
US by the end of next month and this might cost a delayment
for you to receive this draft.

Yours Faithfull
Mr.Eric Moore


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