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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: STOCKLAS JAMES<info@dmcti.co.id>
Reply-To: stocklasjames3@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:01:00 +0100
Subject: CASH DONATION TO YOU REPLY!!!

Dear mail owner,
My name is JAMES STOCKLAS a judge and also the winner of biggest ever jackpot in Pennsylvania and the $291m DOLLARS is already in my bank account. I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $200,000.00 DOLLARS to you, this being part of my Charitable Organizational Donation Project to financially support Ten(10) lucky people from different parts of the world. Your email was luckily selected via a Google & Facebook sponsored email-draws, and i decided to put this on the internet for the world to see in other to relinquish any doubts. Please follow the News Link below for more information; http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/us/brothers-win-lottery/. For immediate release of these donated funds, send your *Full Names:......,*Tel:..... *Age:.....& *Country:.....and i will instruct my payout
Bank to transfer the sum of $200,000.00 DOLLARS to you.

Regards,
JAMES STOCKLAS

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