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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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Fraud email example:

From: USA/UK ANNUAL CONFERENCE <your.memo@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: USA/UK ANNUAL CONFERENCE <franknnelson@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:27:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: YOU ARE INVITED!!!!!


Greetings,

The worldwide concern about Domestic Violence; its impact on the fate of growing population of the world, has risen to unprecedented levels in the last few years.  This explosion of information on Domestic Violence has made all of us much more aware of what is happening. But, the sheer magnitude of it can also be overwhelming.
 
We often ask ourselves, in spite of all the media; are we really certain about what we need to know and are there anything we as average citizens can do about it?

Join our organization, Association for women development for our combine conference with Theme, Domestic Violence Against Women and children, as we learn the answers to those two important questions concerning domestic violence,

What Do We Know?
What Can We Do?

We aspire to:

1) Tackle this scourge of domestic violence.

2) Establish relationship between Groups, NGO's and Individuals that fight against this scourge by giving them grant after the event to be well equipped to continue to fight against this scourge in their native country.

We advice Groups, NGO's and Individuals coming for the conferences to come with their profile as this will help in giving out grant to them


The conferences are of two segments.

Firstly, one shall commence in Seattle, Washington, USA. On the 10th of March till the 13th of March, 2015 at The Washington State Convention Center 800 Convention Pl, Seattle, WA 98101, United States

The second segment shall take place in UK and shall commence on the 16th of March till the 19th of March, 2015 at The Centennial Centre 100 Icknield Port Rd Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands,B16 0AA England

You must put many things into consideration before taking decision to participate in this workshop. Provisions have been made for participants all round flight tickets, feeding and accommodation in the USA. This will be taken care of by our sponsors.
 
The attendance of the two segments of the event is compulsory for any intending delegate.  Delegates will take care of their hotel reservation in England during the first workshop as our sponsors did not make provision for that. These will enable us know those that is coming for workshop really and must go back to their home country.

The organization is not providing fund for UK hotel service, but suggests some cheap designated hotels in UK. Contact our protocol office for the list of the approved hotels.

Delegates who need the authorization of the US or UK visas to participate in this workshop must indicate that while replying to this mail.

If you have considered this, then you should give us the go ahead by contacting us through this email with the particulars of your delegates in order to receive the conference materials as well as other information.

Yours faithfully,
Frank Nelson.


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