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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: "Promo Dept" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnsonthomas0001@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:35:29 -0700
Subject: REF 004_Winning

Congratulation for winning 750,000.00 GBP.Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter and you are to send usyour full details to enable
the processing of your winning cheque of 750,000.00 GBP, A Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop, A British Lottery Branded T-shirt and A British Lottery Branded Baseball cap.
When sending the information you are to include your order number 37096218 as your secret number of your parcel.1. Full Names: 2. Address:3. Age: 4.Sex: 5.Marital Status 6.Occupation:7. Phone Numbers 8:Fax numbers 9. Country: .

Contact Courier for your delivery.
JOHNSON THOMAS: johnsonthomas0001@hotmail.co.uk

Regards
Nelson Brown
Promo Dept

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