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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: European Union
Reply-To: <burkerth48@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 07:16:23 +0100
Subject: =?utf-8?q?Europea_de_Compensaci=C3=B3n_para_las_v=C3=ADctimas_de_la_estaf?=
=?utf-8?q?a_de_la_Uni=C3=B3n?=

Soy Vogel Anton, Oficial de pagos de la Unión Europea en Alemania a cargo del procesamiento y remitir el pago a todos los beneficiarios de la Unión Europea de Compensación Scheme.We tiene $ 4,000,000.00.of sus fondos de compensación del Gobierno de la Unión Europea, se le informa de que los fondos están llegando directamente fromthe Unión Europea, es una de Compensación de la Unión Europea a todas las víctimas de las víctimas, Global financieros estafado y crisis económica andyour correo electrónico ha sido seleccionado al azar como uno de los afortunados beneficiarios.

hemos estado autoriza transferir su pago compensación total de $ 4,000,000.00. Usted está obligado a proporcionar estos datos para que podamos proceder con su traslado:

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