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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: "Jamesdavid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jamed201361@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:59:37 +0800
Subject: Real gems international UNITED KINGDOM

Real gems international UNITED KINGDOM
Westfield Shoppingtowns Ltd
Company No. 03912122
VAT registration number 815 0326 63
Level 6, Midcity Place
71 High Holborn
London WC1V 6EA
phone+447937453027
INTERNATIONAL PRO
MOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
SCFN: GWK/5333/025648/03UAD.
BATCH: 241/2014/BLL.

This is to inform you that your E-mail ID has won $1 Million USD,from real gems international PROMOTION AWARD Held 20th Jul 2014. Note that there were no sales of tickets as the real gems international
PROMOTION AWARD was held through collations of emails via the internet. This selection process was carried out through a random selection in our Computerized Email

Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the World Wide Web. Your Email ID was attach as a winner of this year promotion,

Ref No E769ZF35 and Serial Ticket No E7K2907803-2 Contact your claims agent department immediately with all details below for the procedure of you

claims. for more details:
1.Full Name:

2.Full Address:

3.Marital Status:

4.Occupation:

5.Age:

6.Sex:

7.You email Address...

8.Tel Number/ Mobile Number:

we are looking forward for your urgent reply...................mr.jad2044@gmail.com

Best regard

Mr.James David

good luck

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