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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Stefan Dorou" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infogolddiamonds6@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 03:48:14 +0530
Subject: FROM GOLD AND DIAMOND?

Attn Sir,

We are the African Diamond Group Association dealing on loose diamond colors and gold bars and gold dust for jewelries, Origin Sierraleone/Guinee/Mali/Burkina Faso/Angola/South Africa/Zambia/Ghana/etc,

we have group of miners for gold and rough diamonds,

we have connections for crude oil well in the countries with it minaral resources,

If you are interested to partner with our company us or call with the telephone number below.Phone/+233543305168/+22371200830/+22364428388

We have miners sit for sale,if you are interested you can inform me,

Kindly tell us what types of rough diamonds Or gold you are looking for at what size?

Looking for to hearing from you.

Best Regards
Mr.Stefan.Dorou
Tel+233543305168
skype/Name/mrstefan.dorou
Email/ infogolddiamonds6@gmail.com

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