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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: "Ellis HOBBS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ellishobbs2088@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 20:54:21 +0100
Subject: Re: TREAT AS URGENT ....

Good Day,


I hope my email meet you well. My name is Mr. Ellis Hobbs, I have a business proposal for you from my bank.

I am account officer to late Eng. WEI PIN, he has an unpaid $18.6 million in our bank before he died in 2003, and there were no beneficiary on his beneficiary FORM. Over 13 years, now the government has plan to confiscate every unpaid funds which has no beneficiary.


Should you be interested please treat this massage with utmost and get back to me with the following information:


1 Full names: ............
2 Mobile Telephone number: ..............
3 Country: .......................


As soon as I received your response with the listed information, i will furnish you with more details.
Regards,

Mr. Ellis Hobbs.

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