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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: Barrister Paul Smith <alessiocarrino@alice.it>
Reply-To: barristerpaulsmith14@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:26:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Your $35,000,000.00

Over all Head Quarter African Supreme Court.

In the recently concluded 31st December 2013 investigations and subsequent
arrests of suspected fraudsters in Africa region, in collaboration with the
present governments of Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkinafaso,England and
South Africa, The UN security operatives have so far arrested and prosecuted
over 300 government and banking officials and arrest is still going on.

So far, the UN security operatives have also recovered about $52.1 Billion from
both cash and accounts belonging to different Foreign Beneficiaries. It is from
the address books of the arrested officials that your email address was
recovered.

Right now, the United Nations (UN) and their Africa Union (AU) counterpart is
paying a $35,000,000.00 compensation each to those whose emails addresses and
other personal data are recovered from these arrested officials and you are
among, and also paying full contract or inheritance and winning amounts to
those with provable information qualifying them as genuine contractors and
beneficiaries of funds in the affected African countries.

Which Category do you fall? Have you been getting emails for payments from
these countries? OR are you a legitimate contractor and fund beneficiary in any
of the affected African country.

Your Name, Country, And Phone Number.

Barrister Paul Smith.
+229-6880-9036 / 00229-6880-9036
barristerpaulsmith14@gmail.com

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