419 scam: Favour Mabou <favourmabou1988@att.net> Hello Dear It is my pleasur to meet you,From Favour..

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Favour Mabou <favourmabou1988@att.net>
Reply-To: favourmabou120@live.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:03:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello Dear It is my pleasur to meet you,From Favour..

Merhaba Sevgili

TanÄ±ÅŸtÄ±ÄŸÄ±mÄ±za memnun oldum.

Â nasÄ±lsÄ±n? i misin umut, ondan sonra size conact benim zevk
Bu gerÃ§ekten beni intrested [dan.tobias.name] da profili bugÃ¼n gÃ¶rÃ¼ntÃ¼leme
Sizinle Ä°LETÄ°ÅžÄ°M sana benim resmi gÃ¶nderebilirsiniz bÃ¶ylece sen de beni gÃ¶ndermek beni geri yazmamÄ± ile arzu varsa pic ve birbirimizi tanÄ±mak, bÃ¶ylece ve i, fueture iÃ§inde ne olacaÄŸÄ±nÄ± bilecek olmak
, Sizden duymak iÃ§in bekliyor i gibi istediÄŸiniz her gÃ¼n iÃ§in iyi.
senin yeni bir arkadaÅŸÄ±n lehine.
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Hello Dear

Nice to meet you.

Â how are you ?i hope you are OK,it is my pleasure to conact you after
viewing your profil today in[dan.tobias.name] in which really intrested me to
communicat with you if you have the desire with me to write me back,so that i can send you my picture and you too send me your pic and so that we can get to know each other and know what will happen in fueture, i will be
waiting to hear from you, as i wish you all the best for your day.
yours new friend favour.

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