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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: "DIRECTOR" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <official22mail@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:49:22 +0100
Subject: RE: Important News About Your Faccebook Account

RE: Important News About Your Faccebook Account

This is to notify you that you have won $500,000.00 (five hundred thousand dollars) in our online social networks winnings/grants in which profile accounts are picked randomly by computerized balloting, powered by the Internet. Your Facebook online profile was among five such social networks profile accounts chosen for this quarter.

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Kindly contact your claims agent for him to guide you on the procedures to claim you’re won funds.
Please, fill the information below and contact the regional claims agent with the filled information:.

Contact the transfer department

MR EDWARD K. SMITH
CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.

1.Full Names:
2.Nationality:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Contact Address:
6.Telephone Number:
7.Occupation:
8.Marital Status:
9.Email:

If you have any relative in Canada i can meet with him and take him to Royal Bank of Canada to sign off your cheque payment without any delay, i am presently in Canada doing some official job for 3 working days so that i can help you.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Bellingham Frankly
Tel: 7031968023
Facebook Member Team.
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