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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: Family Donation <adtapon@metatech.com.sg>
Reply-To: <dalesanderachambers@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 17:19:54 -0500
Subject: Re: We have decide to donate the below sum to you as part of our charity project.

Hello

My wife Violet and I Allen Large won 11.2M USD in a lottery 6-49 in July, 2010.
We have decided to donate the sum of $500,000.00USD to you as part of our charity project.
Contact us via our personal email for more details ( mr_mrs_allen.violet_large@aol.com ) and for
verification : http://www.lotterypost.com/news/222928

You are to contact our attorney Mr Dale Sandera via the email below and reconfirm your home address and your
phone number so that he can forward to you all the paper works on how you can received/claim this funds.


Email: dalesanderachambers@gmail.com


Allen and Violet Large
LOWER TRURO,
CANADA

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