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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: "BECA.org" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <JOOJOO@WORKMAIL.COM>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:21:20 -0700
Subject: Get $400-$800 In A Week...

Hello,

I'm Rev. Eric Doff from England . We are looking for Representatives from all over the world for a part-time job offer, and we are willing to pay you $400-$800 per week (depending on how fast you work) We are an Orphanage Home Located in Wins ford, Cheshire, and we have people and Organizations that wants to make donation to us after we have made an appeal to them.We help the less privilege (In countries like Somalia, Haiti,Libya and other Underdeveloped countries) with class programs, Medical Programs, Famine Feed, Educational Programs (TEP) and more. So we need representatives in the United states who would assist us in receiving these Donations and we are going to pay you 10% on every donation you receive. These Donation will be sent to your bank account or to your credit card number for fast withdrawal depending on how you want it.So all you just have to do is for you to receive the money in any of this means ....After cashing the money you are to take 10% of the money and send the balance to us t
The reason why we are in need of representatives to help us cash these money from people in the states that are willing to donate to this countries. So we decided to make the transaction faster and use it to help people. Here is affiliated link in the USA http://www.beca.org.Its a non profit organization will a good aim to help people all over the world.we have reason in which we have decided to set up this organization in helping the needy like sending people to school and also feeding them.The only problem we have is trusting you with our money. Though anyone who tries to runaway with our money would be reported. So can we trust you with the Orphans Donations?
If interested please reply to this email with the Information Below (joojoo@workmail.com)
1. Your Names (as written on the credit card or bank account name)
2. Your Address, Zip code, state. (as given on your bank information)
3. Your Home and cellphone Number (To Contact You)
4.Your Age and Gender.
5. Email address.
God bless you as you reply , please we want serious people only.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
REV. John Cole

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