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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: colin.weir@aol.com
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:38:45 +0300
Subject: Cash Donation From Lottery Winners!

Dear Winner,

This is a confidential message addressed to your email. My name is Mr Colin Weir, and I am the richest British EuroMillions Lottery winner in the United Kingdom.

On 12.07.2011, My wife and I won the EuroMillions Lottery Jackpot of £161 Million GBP and we have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of £1,500,000.00 GBP to You and others, this being part of our 2013 Millionaire Donation Project to financially support seven(7) unknown lucky individuals all over the world.

Your email was luckily selected via a Google & Facebook sponsored email-draws, and we decided to put this on the internet for the world to see in other to relinquish any doubts. The News link below will give you an insight as regard our donations;

http://money.uk.msn.com/%C2%A3161m-winners-plan-charitable-trust

For immediate release of these donated funds, send your *Full Names:......,*Tel:..... *Age:.....& *Country:.....and we will instruct our payout Bank to transfer the sum of £1.5 Million GBP to you.

Congratulations & Best Regards,
Colin & Christine Weir•
Copyright ©2013• The Weir Foundation• All Rights Reserved•

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