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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: "Mrs. Ann Shirley Gorbet" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sgorbet1@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:56:18 +0100
Subject: HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE TEXAS USA

Good day,

Annex ADDRESS: 230 10th Street SW. U.S. Department of Homeland Security P.O. Box 1940. San Antonio, Texas 78297.

>From the desk of Mrs. Ann Shirley Gorbet ( HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE TEXAS USA )


Your check via your pending transfer have been sent to you to the post office close to you get back to us for the tracking code and the post office name to proceed to post office to get your check for $10,500,000,00 usd which was approved last week to get to you, we the homeland security have your tracking code to track check with your post office and clearance papers parcel here intercepted which need some clearance fee paid to homeland security office here in Texas Usa to release your tracking code and your legal check documents for your check retrieve of your funds via your bank.


Get back to this office right now and we will inform you what next to do to retrieve your check, note tracking code fee is needed/clearance to our office here.


When getting back to this office, make sure you send in an official claim letter to this office via our email address below to record your claim and making it official before calling this office phone, only then we can answer your calls, this is our office phone ( +1 903 890 6351 ) note must make your claim official first before calling this office.


You must follow our instructions listed here or you will not receive your check, note no tracking/registration code NO CHECK which means the post cannot release the check to you with out these two measures observed and obtained via the fee we will inform later when you get to this office.

Mrs. Ann Shirley Gorbet

Our Email: sgorbet1@yahoo.cn

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