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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. Varona L. Lorna" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <varonalorna@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:09:50 +0200
Subject: Urgent Please

Dear Friend,

My name is LORNA L. VARONA. I am a Filipina by Nationallity but base and work in uae (United Arab Emirates) with noor islamic bank, as a branch manager in Dubai,before i retired in january this year and went back to my country because of my defficulty
in hearing for sometime now.

As we are about to close our yearly bank record last year, i discovered that one of our customers by name Mr. danel Ekong from Africa who was cought with a very big amount of cocaine and sentenced to death early last year left a large amount of money
in his account...$8,562,200 (eight million, five hundred and sixty two thousand,two hundred usd) without any beneficiary. With my power as the manager i was able to transfer this fund to an international bank in Malaysia by name CHASE
CAPITAL BANK (CCB) without a beneficiary because of my position and the nature of the country was living in.

I am writting you now because the bank contacted me and asked me to present a beneficiary as soon as possible so as to transfer the money into the person's account immediately.

If you can help me to transfer this money into your company's or personal acount am going to give you 40% percent of the total money and take only 60% and if you wouldn't mind i may still want to invest my share in your company's business.

If the conditions are okay by you and you wish to asist me on this, let me have the following information of you..

FULL NAME............
CURRENT ADRESS.........
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.......
CURRENT ID CARD...........
OCCUPATION AND AGE......
ACCOUNT NUMBER..........

As soon as you send me the above requirements i will forward it to my lawyer to start the process immediately. Note: I can't make or recieve calls becaouse of my heaing problem. We can always communicate online.

Best Regards

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