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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: SAFA HACHANI <safa.hachani@upmf-grenoble.fr>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:22:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Congratulations & Happy Celebrations in Advance

My wife and I won a Jackpot Lottery of £101,203,600.70 GBP
last year and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of
£1,000,000.00 GBP to you as part of our own charity project
to improve the lot of five(5)lucky individuals andmten(10)charity
organizations from any part of the world.

To verify the genuineness of this email and our winnings, please see our
interview by visiting the web page below;


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8820740/101m-lottery-jackpot-winners-Dave-and-Angela-Dawes-to-give-millions-to-friends-and-family.html

Your email address was submitted to my wife and I by the Google Management
Team and you received this email because we have listed you as one of the
lucky millionaires last year, Kindly send us the below details to
dangela@datafull.com so that we can direct our Bank to effect
a valid Bank Draft in your name to your operational bank account in your
country.

Full Name:- State:- Country:- DOB:- Occupation:- Age:- Bank Name:- Sex:-
Mobile/Tel:- Identity:-


Congratulations & Happy Celebrations in Advance,
Dave & Angela Dawes

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