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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: goodness awa <goodnessawa@att.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:52:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello my lovely dear friend,


Hello my lovely
dear friend,
Hope your enjoying the good atmosphere of
the day
accordingly,i know it might surprised how i got your email
address,it
was while surfing the net that i discovered it,then i derived
interest
and decided to drop few couple of mine words to you.first and
foremost,
i want to use this medium express myself once again to you,my
name is
miss.Goodness, single young girl,searching for a
mature
man with good sense of
humour

,also appreciate each other start having a good relationship
with a real
love,caring, understand and honest man,please i appreciate you
endeavours contact me directly  in the above email address so as
to
enable me sending my pictures directly to your email box for
further
introduction,shall be very glad reading good news from you
soonest and
God bless as you do comply.

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