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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. Frank Hurt," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frankhurt391@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:13:13 -0500
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE

Holborn Diamond Polishing Co Ltd
88-90 Hatton Garden London,
EC1N 8PN, United Kingdom.
phone: +447012964155

Greetings,

My name is Mr. Frank Hurt, the sales manager of Holborn Diamond Polishing Co Ltd. The company has been recognized for manufacturing high quality jewelries.

As a specialist jewelry manufacturing company, we needs raw material by name diamond mixture which we used for the manufacturing, we buy this materials at the rate of $580 from dealers in United Kingdom (London), recently i discovered a supplier in U.A.E that offered me $370 per gram and qualities are the same, I offered my company at the rate of $470 per gram and our companies board of directors accepted the rate with joy,which they are willing to buy 5 kg for a start and it will be continually on monthly basis.

I contacted you in order to present you to our company as the credible dealer of this material which i will guild you till the end of the transaction, as i will not allow our purchasing manager to buy this product direct from the real dealer, that will cost me the profit that i suppose to make out of the transaction.


Please if this proposal interest you,kindly get back to me and i will give you the telephone contact to the dealer in U.A.E.

Awaiting to hear from you soon.
Mr. Frank Hurt
TEL: +447012964155

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