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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: "Mr. Sacca Fikara" <fris.arvz@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: fikara_sacca49@qatar.io
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:44:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REPLY QUICKLY.



Manager,

Accounts and auditing dept.

Bank of africa-Ouagadougou,

Burkina faso,

West africa.







Dear friend,









I am writing to solicit your partnership to move out of this country into a foriegn account for our use the sum of 10.2 million dollars belonging to a dead customer in the bank where i work DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY who died in a plane crash with his entire family living no one behind as his next of kin to claim this fund.



View this website for more understanding and get back to me if you are interested with your phone number for me to give you more details of the business.



http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html



My kind regards to you and your family,





Yours sincerely,



Mr. Sacca Fikara



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