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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: "ALL HACKING AND SPAMMING" (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:21:28 +0200
Subject: ALL HACKING ,SPAMMING AND BOMBING TOOLS ARE AVAILABE NOW!!!

ALL HACKING ,SPAMMING AND BOMBING TOOLS ARE AVAILABE NOW!!!

(1) I HAVE WESTERN UNION ADMIN, I CAN REDIRECT TO YOUR LOCATION AND GIVE YOU MTCN WITH YOUR RECIEVERS NAME
(2)I HAVE HACKING SOFTWARE AND IP CHNAGER SOFTWERE AND PASSWORD DETECTIVE SOFTWARE
(3) BOMBING==== CPANEL, PHP MAILER, SMTP, WEBMAIL.
(4) SERVER POWER===RDP,ROOT, SSH, VPN, IP CHANGR SOFTWARE.
(5) I SELL ALL COUNTRY EMAILS FRESH FROM DATABASE SHOP ADIN
(6) I HAVE USA, UK, ERUOPE, ASIA BANK LOGIN
(7) I DO BANK TRANSFER TO CUSTOMER DROP
(8) I HAVE TRACK1&2 SOFTWRAE, I ALSO SELL TRACK1$2 WITH PIN
(9) I HAVE CCV, AND FULLZ
(10)
(11) hACKING === ALL SOFTWARES, ALL SCANNERS, ROOT BUG.
(12) SPAMMING=== AL PAGE, R57, SHELL, HTML LETTERS, HOST.
(13) I HAVE MAGNETIC CARD READER....AND MORE

CONTACT MY CHAT ID: (tools.alin) ****please dont replay to my box***

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