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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: "RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rstones010@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:33:19 -0400
Subject: RE: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Congratulations!!!
 
Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999, wishes to inform you that you have won yourself an Award of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Canadian Dollars ($1, 200,000.00) selected by  An Advanced Lotto Tool is a professional lottery software for players or the groups of players, full-featured and advanced lottery analysis program, which helps you select tickets for any lottery.
 
Your email address was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. Awards MUST be claimed by the email owner ONLY, not later than 7 days from the day of notification.
 
The Research in Motion Lotto Group (RIMLG), have approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.
 
You are to forward the below Award Reference Code and File Number to the Director of Operations alongside the following information.
Award Reference code: RIM/LT/CN/3712212536; File number:RIM25:36
1. Full name, 2. Country, 3. Contact Address, 4.Sex, 5. Age, 6. Occupation, 7. Telephone/Fax no., 8. Email
 
Director of People Operations: Agent Froland Robert Lin
E-Mail: rstones010@gmail.com
 
Please do not reply if you are NOT the owner of this email address.
 
Congratulations!!!
 
Sincerely Yours,
Brain Anderson
Research in Motion Lotto Group (RIMLG) 
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*** Attention is drawn to the following confidentiality and disclaimer notice ***
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This email and any of its attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, kindly notify the sender by return mail and delete this message and any attachments immediately. Please do not copy, forward or use this message or attachment
except as permitted by RIMLG. Opinions, conclusions and views expressed in this message are solely personal to the author, unless otherwise clearly stated and related to the official business.
E-mails are not secure and may suffer errors, viruses, delay, interception, and amendment. Therefore, we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses or amendments to the original message.

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