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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: "DAVID MARK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidamark@e-mail.ua>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:57:51 +0100
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Attention
This is in regard to your unclaimed f u n d s, Kindly get back to us with the required

information to finalize this transaction
Name ,Address,Direct number
Your Release Code is (I M F-UN-WB-FMF-002972)
However, I wish to inform you now that your outstanding contract p a y m e n t is ( Six

Million & One Hundred Thousand dollars due to the imposed tax of clearance by the present

government). Therefore your new P a y m e n t Reference No.-769575, Allocation No: 855757

Password No: 84948, Pin Code No: 55674 and
Your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, CBN Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex

confirmation No: -1114433; Secret Code No: XXTN013,
You can call me on my direct line which is: +234-816-825-1170
Best Regards
DAVID ALECHENU MARK (S e n a t e P r e s i d e n t)
Federal Republic Nigeria

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