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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. Bessel Harris" <basselharris@mail.com>
Reply-To: agentjohn1@blumail.org
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:23:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Attention: Dear User Of The Internet




Attention: Dear User Of The Internet

How are you today? We hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition.
This is a total cash prize of US {$2,500,000.00} Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars, given to the first Five(5) people compensated in this
world internet programs.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 700,000 companies. We are
using this opportunity to thank you for using the internet daily.

Due to your effort, using internet daily, We want to compensate you and
show our gratitude to you with the sum of {$500,000.00} Five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars, We have arranged your payment through our swift card
centers, which is the latest instruction from International Monetary Fund
Reconciliation Office {IMF}.

The card center will send you an ATM DEBIT CARD which you will use to
withdraw your money in any ATM machine, Banks and Union Pay Credit outlets
in the world, You are hereby selected as an honor for this payment
approval, which you are to acknowledge the receipt of this mail to the
Logistic Department by email listed below.

Contact Mr.John Nelson with below e-mail;

Compensation Office and Logistics Vaults
Contact Agent: Mr.John Nelson
E-mail: agentjohn1@blumail.org

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours Faithfully,

Mrs. Bessel Harris
International Online Lottery Co-ordinator.
©2011 World Internet Programs

NOTE: Kindly be informed that recipients shall be liable to all cost
arising for the delivery of the ATM DEBIT CARD.

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