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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. Ray Homles" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <Nkiacoordinator@london.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 01:47:29 +0700
Subject: INT'L-PROMOTION/PRIZE-AWARD-DEPT NOTICE

NOKIA- CO-OPERATION- UNITED- KINGDOM
Nokia House. No.10 Great Pulteney Street
W1F 9NB London
United- Kingdom/Asian Regional Office 152, 3 Floor. Indosuez House,
Wireless Road, Lumpini, Pathumwan,
Bangkok 10330 , Thailand.
 
INTERNATIONAL-PROMOTION/PRIZE-AWARD-DEPT NOTICE
SCFN: /UKE7/7685/010767/0112.
BATCH: 4381/2011/E7-BLX.
 
This is to inform you that your E-mail ID has won (1,000,000) GBP, from NOKIA PROMOTION- AWARD. Note that there were no sales of tickets as the NOKIA PROMOTION- AWARD was held through collections of emails/tagged profiles via the internet, your Email- ID/tagged profiles was attach with a NOKIA- E7 Series, Serial-No: E787B3406, Ref No: NOKIA- E769ZF35 and Tagged Ticket No: E7K2907803-2
Contact- your- claims- agent- department- immediately- with- all- details- below for the procedure- of – your- claims. Contact- person; Mr. Howard Webb. Email: Nkiacoordinator@london.com
 
1. Full Name:
2. Full Address:
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Country:
8. International passport copy or ID card
9. Tel Number:
10. Serial number:
11. Ref number:
12. Tagged ticket number:
13. E-mail ID:
 
Announcer!
Mr. Ray Homles.
President
 
 
 

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