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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: "SUSAN MOOREHEAD" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:12:48 -0700
Subject: Details information's regarding this transaction is very serious and required your urgent attention

Untitled Document

Dear sir,


The main reason why you cannot deposit the fund direct to the First Caribbean Bank account is because we have not yet open an account for you, so we work with the fiduciary agent first to open the account with $50 and then pay in $5,000 into the same account immediately to complete the full upgrading of your account before we move the first batch $36million united states dollars into your new account which will qualify you to start receiving your fund without any interruption from any authority.

 



And we will then fly down to hand over the checkbook, debit cards and master cards for you to start using and withdrawing money from your account, and finally we will open an electronics online system which will allow you stay in your house and control all the wires you need on daily basis and we will then present the funds origin documents and and job completed documents for you to sign and keep records so that anytime the authority or your bank ask you for the prove of fund documents, you can easily present the documents to them to defend yourself.

 



I will wait to hear from you

 



Regards

Mrs. Susan Moorehead

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