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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: Money Gram Malaysia <tpd-ciechanow@neostrada.pl>
Reply-To: money_gram_limited@mspil.edu.cn
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:39:30 -0700
Subject: MONEY TRANSFER REFERENCE:2116-3297

My associate has helped me to send your first payment
of $5000 USD to you as instructed by the Malaysian
Government and Mr. David Cameron the United Kingdom
prime minister after the last G20 meeting that was
held in Malaysia, making you one of the beneficiaries.
Here is the information below.

Refrence Numbers: 86147516
Sender Name Is = Patrick Lee Chun

I told him to keep sending you $5000 USD twice a week
until the FULL payment of ($820000.00 United State Dollars)
is completed.

A certificate will be made to change the Receivers Name
to your name as stated by the Malaysian Government,reconfirm
your {1}Full Names {2}address {3}Mobile Number

via Email to:money_gramlimited@mspil.edu.cn Allan Davis
to proceed.

Note:

You cannot pickup the money until the certificate is
obtained by you.

Regards
Mr. Allan Davis.
Tel: +(60) 102595061.

For more info: www.g20.org

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