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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: EMAIL ACCOUNT VERIFICATION <officefile----6780@att.net>
Reply-To: imf.wss-id-org@wss-id.org
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 05:43:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Welcome to Email Account Verification


Message body
HTML{height:100%;cursor:text}
BODY{padding:3px;border:0;margin:0}
.PlainText,.HTML{font-family:'Lucida Console' !important;font-size:80%}
P{margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important}
BLOCKQUOTE,UL,OL{margin-top:0 !important;margin-bottom:0 !important;padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:0 !important}
*{text-indent:0 !important}
SPAN.squiggly{border-bottom:dotted 1px #f00}

function clk(){parent&&parent.rteOnClick&&parent.rteOnClick()}
function kyu(){parent&&parent.rteOnKeyUp&&parent.rteOnKeyUp()}
function Init(){
var wl=window.location,d=document;
if(wl.search.indexOf("pf=pf")>=0){
var hn=wl.hostname,dmn=hn.substr((hn.lastIndexOf('.',(hn.lastIndexOf('.',hn.length))-1))+1).toLowerCase();
if (("live.com"==dmn)||("live-int.com"==dmn))d.domain=dmn}
if (d.addEventListener){d.addEventListener('click',clk,false);d.addEventListener('keyup',kyu,false);}
d.body.hideFocus=true}


 


 

Welcome
to  Email Account Verification
Attention!!!!:
/Confirm Your Account To Avoid Closed!        
We are sorry to inform you that we
are currently working on securing our server, During this process of an Account
that is not manually verified by us will be deleted, Please You are advise to
Verify and Confirm your EMAIL! Account details below to Enable Us to upgrade
your Account. E.G Your email account! ID, Password, Date Of Birth
etc.
  
Anyone who fails to do his or her own
will Automatically lost HIS or HER own email!
Account.
        

VERIFY YOUR  EMAIL ! ACCOUNT NOW
!!!
        

User
Name:
User
Id:
Password:
Date Of
Birth:
Country (At Sign
up):
    

This message is from email account
verification! Message Center to all email account! free Account owners and
Premium Account owners. We are currently Upgrading Our Database and E-mail
Accounts Center. We are deleting all unused Email! Account to create more space
for a New Member.
  
To prevent your account from being
De-activated automatically by email! You will have to update it Quick at which
we need a response from you within the Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to
update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his
or her account permanently. Upon confirmation of information from you, We will
manually verify your Email! Account not to be De-activated, We are sorry for any
inconveniences this might have cause providing  your information over the
Email.
  
Thanks for using Email account!
Mail.

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