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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: Paulson Taha <ford33@seever.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <paulsontaha@post.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:23:52 +0530
Subject: From Paulson Taha

Dear

I am Mr Paulson Taha, an account manager to late Dr. Sanjay a business
consultant and major sub contractor in Scotland, On the 27th December 2009,my
client, and his wife and their two kids were involved in an auto crash and
it was unfortunate that they all lost their lives. For years now I have done
a lot of research to locate his relations to claim his Estate fund value all
to no avail.


I contacted you because both of you come from the same country. I want to use
you as next of kin to claim his Estate/Fund valued ($4.8Million) then
transfer it to your country, before our government confiscate it or declared
it unserviceable by the Finance Firm. I will provide the necessary document
for your back up since I am his personal account manager before his death.


Note :40% will be for you if you are interested do kindly get back to me
urgently

Regards

Mr Paulson Taha

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