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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: "DR. JOE MATHEW" <dr.joemathew@live.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:43:23 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL WITH MY COMPANY

Compliment of the day my dear,

I got your contact from the international business directory and Industry then decided to contact you directly for an investment with you in my company if you can understand English and India Language (Hindi) Our Company is into production of Pharmaceutical products and Animal Vaccines.

There are some materials which our company needs from India for research and development of its Anti HIV therapy, Hypertension, Parkinson, Disease, Rest legs syndrome, stroke.

We have been purchasing the materials from Kenya in (Africa) but it is very scarce now in Kenya and we got someone in India who is selling the same product but we are having problem with the owner of the products because of (Language Barrier) as the owner of the product did not understand English and one man called Mr. Gupta who introduce the local dealer to us betrayed us in our first business with him, now we don't want to continue with him since he is not sincere to us.

Please take out a moment of your very busy schedule to respond back to this email id (dr.joemathew@live.com) for more details if you are interested to invest with us.

Best regards,
Dr. Joe Mathew.


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