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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 & Mrs Weir" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <c_colinweir@yahoo.se>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 01:28:44 -0700
Subject: News from The Weir's

After much achievements from Weir Charitable Trust we have decided to expands our charity projects to affect the lives of 10 lucky persons across the globe and not just Scotland by donating the sum of £1.5m each from our £161m on the EuroMillions lottery win in July 2011 On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of the lucky individuals. Kindly get back to us so that we can send your details to our lawyer to proceed with remittance of your funds to you

Kindly visit the web pages for further verification:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14161661


Chris and Colin Weir
Email: c_chris@mail2colin.com

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