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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: info@cafebar-legato.com
Reply-To: Bar.charlesesq101@live.com
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:54:48 -0800
Subject: PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY AND CLAIM YOUR COMPENSATION

Attn: Lucky Winner,

Once again, I would like to say a big congratulation to you. Let me formally introduce myself, I am Barr. Charles White, Fiduciary Agent of TOM CRIST FOUNDATION. Mr. Tom Crist won a Jackpot Lottery of $40 Million million and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of 710,000.00 Pounds each to Lucky people which your Email address was submitted to us by the Google Management Team as our Lucky beneficiary.Tom Crist set out this Organization as part of his own charity project to improve the lives of people all over the continents of the world. Your Email address were entered as dependent client which consequently won you this amount in the first category.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below:

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/12/18/dnt-ctv-network-lotto-winner.ctv-network.html

Be informed that we are in possession of your Funds which will be sent to the financial institution to effect your payment when you have completed the form below and return it to us within 48 hrs of this email.

Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the spaces provided in the Claims Form to facilitate our immediate processing of your prize claim. You are to send the filled form to our legal adviser on this email [ Bar.charlesesq101@live.com ] For futher information.

FOR CONFIRMATION, YOU THE BENEFICIARY/OWNER OF THE FUNDS SHOULD COMPLETE THIS CLAIMS FORM.

1.FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:

2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:

3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:

4.NATIONALITY:

5. NAMES AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:

6.SEX:

7.MARITAL STATUS:

8.OCCUPATION:

9.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:

10.MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:


Congratulations for being a beneficiary.

Sincerely,
Fiduciary Agent,
Barr. Charles white


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