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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: ddangela6@bahana-magazine.com
Reply-To: ddangela68@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:08:04 +0700 (WIT)
Subject: Good Day

Good Day

This is a personal email directed to you. I am Dave Dawes,I and my fiance
won a Jackpot Lottery of 101 million pounds ($156 million) in October, My
fiance and I have decided to make sure this is put on the Internet for the
world to see. You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate
family members and friends,and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum
of 1 million pounds ($1.56 million) to you as part of our own charity
project to improve the lot of 5 unknown lucky individuals all over the
world plus 15 close friends and family. If you have received this email
then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get
back with us with your

NAME,
ADDRESS
and CONTACT NUMBER

so that we can send your details to the payout courier. You can verify
this by visiting the web pages below.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8820740/101m-lottery-jackpot-winners-Dave-and-Angela-Dawes-to-give-millions-to-friends-and-family.html

We anticipate your earliest response.

Best of luck,
Dave and Angela Dawes.

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