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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 Clean" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rjamespond200121@yahoo.co.th>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 06:11:19 +0700
Subject: Yahoo Awards Center...............Congratulations...................Congratulation....

Yahoo Awards Center
          124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United  Kingdom.
                
                        
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eighty Four Thousand, Five Hundred United State Dollars ($5.5 Million United State Dollars) for the month of May, 2013 Prize  promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS  & WINDOWS LIVE.
 
YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners. to begin your claim visit our website by clicking http://y-lotthome.webs.com/
 
OR YOU CAN STILL CONTACT OUR AGENT THROUGH THIS EMAIL.
 
CONTACT  PERSON: MR. JAMES POND
CONTACT EMAIL : rjamespond200121@yahoo.co.th
CONTACT TELEPHONE: +66943471714
 
 
Congratulations!! once again.
 
Yours in service,
              
Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler  (Awards coordinator)

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