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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: "Purchase Manager" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <christainbell1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 02:10:34 +0100
Subject: P/Order FOB- 08-74

Hello,
we saw your company's product on the internet and we are interested to buy some of your products,could you please quote us the best prices with FOB port and FOB airport.
To view the product samples kindly login with your email address because our company has added your email address to our own company email data base for security reasons.
View our order:  http://tracking.smartandmobile.ca/va/Samples.htm
My company have an annual investment of (12  Million Euros) every  year on import & export from CHINA and we intend to increase our import limit as time goes on.
Please review the samples and send us the PI to enable us make deposit payment for you to start this order production.
Thanks.
Jishun Song
Purchase Manager
PT Gozco Plantations Tbk
Graha Permata Pancoran Building
Jl. Raya Pasar Minggu 32C/110

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