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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: evylin jones <jones.evylin@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: evylinjones@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:36:00 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Hello Friend,


Hello Friend,










How are you today and how about your health,hope you are fine and
good.Any well after going through  your profile in (dan.tobias.name) i
became interested in you.I  will like to have you as my good friend whom
i will like to share my life experience with.Your sex, age, race nor
distance does not matter to me rather what matters most in a
relationship is the maturity,truth and honest that exist between
friends.So i will like you to contact me back through my private mail
address So that i can tell you more about my self and send to you my
photo.





















Yours Sincerely,reply me here





















Evylin

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