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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: Gillian and Adrian Bayford <gilliabyfrd@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: <gillianbayford@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:01:22 +0100
Subject: Donation/Grant


My husband and I won One hundred and Forty eight million six hundred and fi=
fty six thousand pounds (=A3148,656,000 GBP) Euromillions jackpot on the 10=
August 2012 and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of =A31,500,000=
.00 GBP to you as part of our own charity project to improve the lot of ind=
ividuals all over the world. Your email address was amongst the email addre=
ss submitted by Google, INC as a web user. On receipt of this email, you sh=
ould count yourself as one of the individuals. Kindly get back to me with t=
he below details so that we can send your details to our selected bank.
Full Name:
Age:
Country:
Phone Number: =

Kindly visit sky news web page for further verification: Sky News
Regards, Gillian Bayford

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