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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: "Mrs. Mona Sunaydih Al Saeedi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:29:38 +0530
Subject: Please reply to my private Email:monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com

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Content-Type:text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit

The attached message from "Mrs. Mona Sunaydih Al Saeedi" <monasunaydihaisaeedi89@hotmail.com> (<monasunaydihaisaeedi89@hotmail.com>)
was determined by the Spam Blocker to be spam based on a score
of 18.0 where anything above 4.3 is spam.

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Content-Type:message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit
Content-Disposition:inline

Reply-To: <monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com>
From: "Mrs. Mona Sunaydih Al Saeedi"<monasunaydihaisaeedi89@hotmail.com>
Subject: Please reply to my private Email:monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:29:38 +0530
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

I am Mrs. Mona Sunaydih Al Saeedi, a Muslim.I have picked your
email address for an inheritance of £18.2million Pounds.Please contact me
for more details via email: monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com
Please reply to my private Email:monasunaydihaisaeedi@hotmail.com
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