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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: Interlinks Secufinance <interlinkssecufinance@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:23:05 -0700
Subject: URGENT

Greetings Friend,

I am Mr John Fofona from Interlinks Security and Finance company
Conakry guinea, I am sorry for this
interruption. I have no other way to reach you than these ways, please
accept my apology. I am an account manager to one of our foreign late client
who invested heavily in Gold and Diamond mining business West Africa. It is my interest to contact you in respect of this our
client who opened account with our security and finance
company. It is with good spirit of heart I opened up this great
opportunity to you. This deceased client of mine shares almost the
same name as yours; He died as a result of heart-related condition on
14 of November 2011.His heart condition was due to the death of all
the members of his family in the fukushima earthquake and tsunami
disaster on the March 11, 2011 in northeastern Japan where they all
lost their lives.
After his death, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address, but got no reply. He died without making any will. His draft
account opened in my finance company before his unfortunate death is
$30,500,000 Dollars and 107 kilos of gold as. it is now I want to present
you as the beneficiary of
the deceased. I will use my position and influence in our Security and
finance company to make sure they release this money to you for our
mutual sharing. If I wait for days and did not hear from you, I shall
look for another person.
Kindly get back to me for more details.
Warm Regards
Mr John Fofona

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