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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <brownndaiddd@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:40:49 -0500
Subject: Hope to hear from you

Good Day,
I sent you an email last week but i did not get any response from you, I assumed that you did not receive my message so i decided to write you again.If you can Remember some time ago you receive email from my partner asking you assist us to receive some FUND into your Bank Account.Now I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from ENGLAND.I'm in ENGLAND for investment projects. meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now contact my Bank Officer Mr.Evans Valencia  in Nigeria his information below:
Contact Name: Mr.Evans Valencia  my Bank Officer
Email Address: valencia.evans@accountant.com
Ask him to transfer the deposited fund of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand USD) which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. in the moment, I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to Mr.Evans Valencia on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with him without any delay.
Best Regards
Mr.David Brown

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This e-mail communication and its attachments are intended only for the private use of the people named above. If you received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. Erciyes University does not accept any legal responsibility for the contents of this message.


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