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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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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "CONF INFO" <ghro.conf2009@puan.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:33:51 -0700
Subject: International Conference Notice

Dear Sir/Madam,
 
You are kindly invited to attend the forth-coming International Conference meeting on Violence and Global Economic Crisis. The events will begin from August 20th-23rd 2013 in Texas, United State of America and August 26th-30th 2013 in Republic of Senegal.
 
The aims of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay a ground work for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program development as well as to educate social service, health care and global financial sectors.

Registration is freely open to all interested participants; interested participants should contact the conference secretariat via Email below for more information and registration: sec.off.info@aim.com

If you are a holder of an international passport that require visa to enter the United States and Dakar Senegal, you are to inform the event secretary when sending your detail for registration, as the organizers of the event is fully responsible for all visa arrangements and travel assistance.
 
Once again we thank you for taking out your time in your busy scheduled to attend this conference meeting with us and we hope to see you at the event venue.

Thanks!
Ms. Emily Michael
Program coordinator

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