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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: "Meng Mike" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <me677554ike@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:44:55 +0700
Subject: Re:From Mr Mike,

Dear Friend,
How are you and your family today? i hope every one is in good health.
Please i am contacting for a good proposal that will benefit both of us if
you are interested, please reply back. For more details as is a business
deal that we can benefit from if we agreed to work together as one. My
name is Meng Mike, from south east Asia.
Please i contacted you because I need to do this with someone outside my
country as it?s not the type of deals that can be done with anybody but
someone who can be trusted.
Waiting for your reply back.
Regards,
Mr Mike.

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