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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: "YAHOO ASIA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <yahasiapromo1@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 18:05:52 -0700
Subject: Congratulations Dear Email Beneficiary!!

Dear Email Address Beneficiary!!

Yahoo wishes to inform you that your email was luckily grouped among the winners of our on going 2015 edition of YAHOO ASIA international lottery promotion program. For further more information on this lucky winning announcement, You are advised to click on our website lottery promotion link given below and go through further information and direction on how to redeem your cash prize.

http://yahooasia-lotteryonline.hpage.com

You should keeps in noticed that a prize that has been won on this occassion is USD 1,000,000.00 ( One Million United States Dollars cash prize ).

We fully congratulates you on this great success.

Yours Sincerely,
Yahoo Team
Asia Pacific Regional
Bangkok Thailand.

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