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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:

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by HZDFYD.com MailServer with ESMTP by
mail.xsedu.zj.cn Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:14:41 GMT
Reply-To: <27727124589@vodamail.co.za>
From: "Bosco Construction PLC Benghazi Libya"<27765205719@vodamail.co.za>
Subject: Bosco Construction PLC
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:13:37 -0800
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081

Reply-To: <27765205719@vodamail.co.za>
From: "Bosco Construction PLC Benghazi Libya"<27765205719@vodamail.co.za>
Subject: Bosco Construction PLC
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:39:01 -0800



Due to political issues going on in Libya, the CEO and company board members which I will not mention any name for now, has assign and order me to move the company's bank account out from South Africa to any safe country and I can only achieve it via only one way. If it will please you to know more ensure to contact me via email and we shall talk more.

Al- Abagari Zlitni
27727124589@vodamail.co.za
0781223673@mtnloaded.co.za
IMPORTANT: This E-mail message and any attachment are all confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended receipent, please immediately delete it and all copies from your system, destroy any hard copy and notify me immediately. You should not directly or indirectly copy, print or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person.

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