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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Achariyan Superb" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hlteni2611@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:57:23 -0500
Subject: EXCHANGE VEF

Dear partners,

We are interested in purchasing/exchanging Venezuela currency we can give USD or Euros equivalent in any country or account nominated by VEF P,

Procedure 1:
1, after sign of contract by both parties,

2, VEF move first with first tranche to nominated local account of usd/euro p and send payment copy to usd/euro p through email,
3, upon confirmation of VEF the usd/euro p transfers usd/euro to external account of vef p anywhere in the world and send payment copy to vef p through email,
4, usd/euro p pays commission as stated in fpa .
5, exchange rate today is 1usd to 50 vef commission 10vef

NB: We have have 3 other procedures either by TTM or bank to bank or exchange of bank drafts or cashier checks contact us on below infos so we can discuss more

Thanks,

Stavara Chiprodcom
Email: stavarachlprodcom@yahoo.com

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