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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: "Florence Kuku" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <floxxy985@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 05:44:52 -0000
Subject: HELLO

Hello My Dear,

How are you today?. My name is Miss Florence. I hope that everything is fine with you as it is my great pleasure to contact you in order to be having communication with you starting from today. Please, I was just surfing through the Internet search when I found your email address and decided to contact you.

Actually, I want to make a very new and special friend, so I decided to contact you to see how we can make it work if we can. I wish you will have the same desire with me. so that we can get to know each other better and see what happens in the future!. I will be sending you my pictures and details about me as soon as I hear from you. Hope to hear from you soon?.

Thanks with love!!
Floxxy.

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