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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: "Lopez Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lopez_williams1@rocketmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 06:52:20 -0800
Subject: Very Important

Dear Friend

I am Mr.Lopez Williams i am a practicing property attorney by profession,I am the intimate and entrusted personal attorney to late Mr. G. Josef from your country who was a Gold merchant in hygienic products via West African Coast tro Thailand as an import and export executive. My late client and that of his entire family were lapsed in the Phuket Thailand natural disaster on the 26th of December 2004 in the Tsunami. Now I have contacted you so that the fund that he has left behind can be transferred to your bank account through my assistance.

The fund was valued for Twelve million five hundred thousand dollars $12.5MUSD and these fund was deposited in a local bank here by my late client before the accident.
I need your private email address Your Age, your occupation,and your Telephone numbers so that I can give you more details about the claim.

Kindly reply to me so that i can forward to you the detail procedures.

Thanks and God bless in anticipation of your quick response.

Please reply me through my email address( lopez_williams1@rocketmail.com )

Regards,

Barr. Lopez Williams

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