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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: wilfredo@apu.cbc.org.pe
Reply-To: barr.richardwbloomfield@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:08:27 +0100
Subject: DONATION/CLAIM



Dear Good Friend,
My wife and I won the biggest Euro Millions lottery prize of 161,653,000 million pounds and we just commenced our Charity Donation and we will be giving out a cash donation of £1,500,000.00 GBP to ten (10) lucky individuals and ten (10) charity organizations from any part of the world.

Your email address was amongst the email address submitted by (YAHOO INC/GOOGLE INC) as a web user. On receipt of this email, you should count yourself as one of the lucky individuals.
send your name, address, phone number for claims to my Barrister Richard Bloomfield via email barr.richardwbloomfield@yahoo.com

View http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18801698

We await your earliest response and God Bless you.

Best of luck.

Colin & Chris Weir.

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