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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: Office Office <office_office555@yahoo.com.cn>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:40:29 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Dear E-mail Account Owner,


 





Dear E-mail Account Owner,

 This message comes from your
(EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER) messaging admin center to All E-mail Account owners. We
are currently improving our Database and E-mail Account Center and creating more
certainty for our Legal Service clients. At this moment we are upgrading our
data base so that there will be more space for new customers and increasing the
surf on the Internet.

 To prevent your Email address not to
bead-activated and to enable it upgraded, you need to assist us by sending the
information below to enable us upgrade it, so that your email account status
were fleet in our database as a very active, useful and legal email account. Do
send to us the below information to enable us upgrade your Account, else your
email account will lost in a short time.

 * User ID:
..........................(Req uired)
 * Password:
.........................(Requ ired)
 * Date of Birth:
....................(Required)
 * Country Or Territory:
..............(Required)

 WARNING!!!E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade
his or her account within Five days after notification of this update will
permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of
the client or user’s account and we will not be responsible for loosing our
account.

 Thanks for your understanding as it is geared towards serving
you better.

 Support Team
 Warning Code:
ID67565434

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