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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: "Mr.William Martins" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williammartins.martins09@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:02:30 +0100
Subject: Invest/Company

Invest/Company

My Name is Mr.William Martins
I have the intention to invest in your home town
but I don't know anybody that can help me to execute this
plan when I come over to your country ,This is the simple reason
Iam contacting you to know if you can be able to assist me in
championing this venture to the best of our benefit.

If your are interested,I have the sum of $29.10M Dollars
created aside that I intended to invest in your country profitable.
So if you are capable to handle this transaction kindly get back to me
to enable us discuss and workout the modalities.

Waiting to hear from you, for further informations and
confidentiality please contact me on my personal email
address: williammartins.martins09@gmail.com



Regards,

Mr.William Martins

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