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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: "Leonard Hironaka" <info@tempnn.com>
Reply-To: dusontent@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:47:24 +0300
Subject: Re:




--
Change of yahoo messager
Hironaka Leonard
My New Yahoo msg: dusontent@yahoo.com

Grow your business,


Believe you me or not, sending extracted emails is sometimes like wasting
time fetching water with basket because


1 as you are extracting emails other people are as well extracting the
same emails and while working your client more than hundred people are as
well working him or her from other walks of life, sometime they get
confuse and do not know which is a scam or who to trust.




2 you bomb the same person over and over again because any time you
extract 1; you ignorantly extract the same emails you have extracted
before 2 you extract blacklisted mails or old dead emails




3 the worst of it all is buying emails from people who sales the same
emails to 100s of people and as well duplicate emails or you pay for tools
and the hacker disappear with money.


If you want, I'll sale to you hot and current fresh email leads that will
give you good result; I was getting my leads every 3 or 7days but now I
get daily update emails from a IT personnel working with IRS IT department
in US... Am sure you know what that means.


Am a Nigerian living in Nigeria, I know the word Nigeria is discouraging
but I do personally test my emails/tools and it been tested good, so no
email for text and if you cannot give me benefit of doubt, then do not
waste your time contacting me. I hate stories and will not entertain long
talk. You are free to deal with me or not but if you worry about this,
then don't pay that's the safest way. You don't need to tell me stories on
how you have been scam by hacker etc.


I have Worldwide Email, WEBMAIL, SMTP, 1MONTH RDP, Domain, Online Banking,
FULLZ, CC, Payment of sites, Scam page/Alibaba and I also send emails for
people.



It’s best treating your job with your domain or website and get good
result. Good decision making in any business is key to success. I don't
know the level of your financial status, but I pray you will meet the
right client and the year will be a better year for us all.


Hironaka Leonard
Yahoo msg: dusontent@yahoo.com
Tel: +234 703-270-1280


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