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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: "luizahhassan@adinet.com.uy" <luizahhassan@adinet.com.uy>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 06:36:55 -0200 (UYST)
Subject: Hallo meine lieben

Hallo meine lieben
wie geht es dir. Nun Mein Name ist Fräulein Luiza Hassan ist, bitte nicht
überrascht sein
durch den Empfang meine Botschaft, ich habe Ihre Ansprechpartner während meiner
Suche im Internet
eine zuverlässige, Vertrauen verdient und ehrliche Person mit Angst vor Gott /
Allah zu
mich vorstellen und für die Person, die mich akzeptieren, wie ich bin, bitte
ich werde
wie Sie, mich zu kontaktieren wieder mit meiner E-Mail-, so dass kann ich Ihnen
mein Bild für
Sie wissen, wen ich bin. und Dissektion ich warten wird Eingang Ihrer
mail bald auf Wiedersehen und
haben einen schönen Tag.

Von Miss Luiza Hassan.


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Hello my dear
how are you doing. Well My name is Miss Luiza Hassan, Please don’t be surprise
by receiving my message, I got your contact during my searching in Internet for
a reliable, trust worthy and Honest person with the fear of God/Allah to
introduce myself to and for the person to accept me any how i am, please i will
like you to contact me back with my email so that i can give you my picture for
you to know whom i am. and more dissection I will be waiting to received your
mail soon bye and
have a nice day.

>From Miss Luiza Hassan.

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