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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: Mr Gordon Freedman <ibrownsmith@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: mail_info437@virgilio.it
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:12:10 +0000
Subject: RE


Dear friend,

I confidently place my trust in you with the hope that
you will consider the information contained therein as real
and legitimate in spite of the cynicism originating from the
increasingly risks of entering into business relationships
nowadays.
Interestingly, it will be fair to inform you properly and
prepare your mind to completely disassociate the privilege and
opportunity provided by this deal as an act of fraud or
criminally motivated.

Mr name is Mr Gordon Freedman a British citizen with dual
nationality , a staff of Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL)
whose offshore activities resides in the South and East Falkland
Basins of South Atlantic.and administrative head office in
London , UK . Visit :http://www.fogl.com/fogl/en/home
The contract award and procurement department of my company
headed by myself was assigned with the responsibility of
contracting the substantive bidders that set up three
Petro-chemical Plants in the island of Wales .

The project budgetary provision submitted to the head of the
technical and contracts evaluation department of Falkland Oil and
Gas Limited for the Turn Around Maintenance of these refineries
were deliberately hiked to accommodate the committee's members
needs when dis-engaged from service.

It has been for too long that i searched for a reliable person who
will be totally trusted to front and take over this outstanding
unclaimed executed projects.

Here is the true facts about this long contracted and executed
worth $33.5 The supplementary project cost presented to my
company was overinflated by the above amount and got
approved outside the original projects bid.

However, the above sum is yet unclaimed , We were two staff that
headed the project committee unfortunately the other staff died
last year but sadly leaving me with the sole privileged details
and outstanding of this
unsettled amount.

I urgently need your hand of friendship and acceptance to stand
for this unclaimed fund in my company.

You will get 30% of the total sum after taking care of all
unforeseen contingencies in the course of actualizing this
opportunity.
.

Thanks,

Mr Gordon Freedman







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