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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: "Sgt David Hess" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ssgtdavidess@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:50:05 -0700
Subject: COMPESATION

Hope is well with you and your family. My name is SSGT David Hess,I am an American soldier, serving in the military with the army's 3rd infantry division formaly based Iraq but now in Afganistan.i It is my pleasure to let you know about my success in getting those fund transffered under the cooperation of a new partner from United Kindom.I
didn't forget your past efforts to assit me in transffering those funds.Please contact my Account officer Allan David true his email(allandav_caterallan@yahoo.co.uk) ask him to tranfer total sum of $1.2 million united state dollars into your account which i raised for your compensation .so feel free and get intouched with him and give him your address where to wire the transfer:

(1) FULL NAME .................

(2) ADDRESS ...................

(3) COUNTRY ...................

(4) PRIVATE TEL ...............

(5) PRIVATE FAX ...............

Do Let me know immediately you receive it okay so feel free to get
intouch with him.
Best regards,
SGT DAVID HESS

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