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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: "BLU COMPENSATION TEAM" <dr.okekefre@blumail.org>
Reply-To: <dr.okekefred@blumail.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:41:47 +0100
Subject: Blu Compensation Team

Dear Sir/Madam

To many Stories going on the internet which we discovered to be scam and fraudulent latter, My purpose of contacting is to advise you to stay away of such emails, Some America and other Countries, have been involved in scam and fraudulent email and so many families have turn from Grace to grass because of these email that sound so exciting to them to end up spending a lot of money trying to claim their so called Funds, With all these lose and we noticed that you have been involved in these same condition.

So we hereby compensate you due to your lost in such scams with a little amount of $15,000 just to keep along we know that this is very little to you but we are here compensating Thousands of American  with helps from Foreign Compensation Team (FCT), Get back to me as soon as you get this email so that we can get advise on how you would like us to send your Fund to you sir/Madam

Please fill these below information to secure a file for you.

Name:
Sex:
Age:
Occupation:
Address:
Zip code:
Telephone:

You should choose from any of  choose from these options on how you should get your payment to you,

We can pay you via

New ATM Card provision.
Bank To Bank Transfer:
Credit Card Top Up
Checks:


Once these information has been provided, you would be needed to make a payment of $250 for your Funds File Applications Fee (FFAF) which is highly needed to control this transaction and it would be the only payment that would be made by you any other charges would be carried out by The
Foreign Compensation Team (FCT). So let me know if you are fine with the term so to provide the payment information on how to have the payment to me for the Funds File Application Fee (FFAF).

Please get back to me as soon as possible via my email.   dr.okekefred@blumail.org

Best Regards,
Dr. Okeke Fred.

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