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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: "Dr. Palacios" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drpalaciospanta.victorhugo1@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:33:49 -0800
Subject:

Attn: Dear Sir/madam,
 
Good day to you my dear friend,I am the New Director & Purchasing Manager of a Pharmaceutical Company Gilead Sciences is an American biopharmaceutical company,I request for your collaboration and partnership to enable us executes a very lucrative and highly profitable business transaction, it is an important supply business of a animal vaccine product, this supply business shall profit us meaningfully. This is a good opportunity for us to win a contract business supply, it requite we furnish yearly some quantity of animal vaccine to a wealthy client who has a very pharmaceutical company, it require we purchase from a large farming company at a lower price and selling at a good profitable price which shall leave us with considerable profit meaningfully. As a matter of fact we shall be making twice the price of purchase. The interesting advantage is that the client is in a position to make payment for his order,If you are interested, please get back t o me for more detail. I shall be
 
 
Regards
Dr. Palacios Panta Victor  Hugo
Director & Purchasing Manager
Tel: +1 6572030673
Fax: 650 578-9264
Address: Foster City, CA (Headquarters)333 Lakeside Drive Foster City, CA 94404
Email: drpalaciospanta.victorhugo1@gmail.com
Gilead Sciences Biotechnology company
 
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