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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: "hacker - selling -crack tools" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <parinazbarati36@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:22:56 -0700
Subject: hack+crack+spam tools AVAILABLE FOR SALE


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CHATTING ONLY WITH ME ON YAHOO

1 million Email is $150 with free domain smtp

Smtp Domain,.... $100 - inbox, unlimited sending for 3 weeks

Smtp ip...... $50 - instant inbox, unlimited sending for 1 week

smtp inbox ... unlimited sending for 48hrs - $25

Mailer,... $25 - inbox , 500 bcc , unlimited sending for 5 days

Webmail,.. $50 - inbox, 1000 bcc ,unlimited sending for 60 days

Cpanel, ... $60 - inbox,1000 bcc ,unlimited adding 4 month
.
Rdp. ... $60 Any country 6 month last

Track 1 & 2 visa and master $1000 FOR $80 $2000 FOR $150

VALID CC: US-UK-CA-EU (with bin|dob|fulls) $10 each all cards

Bulk mail Sender .. $1500. 1year validity (no smtp require) 1 pc user only

PAYMENT BY LIBERTY RESERVE OR MONEYGRAM OR BANK ACCOUNT

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