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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: info@nusantara-sakti.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:07:25 +0200
Subject:

: SMTPHEADER_REPLYTO#
Message-ID: <ywrw94z4u4jonydqy48qqh2h.1777742923561@nusantara-sakti.com>
From: info@nusantara-sakti.com
To: eb569510@opayq.com, eb6585@wayne.edu, eb6c7bfb@opayq.com,
eb7243@dejazzd.com, eb725057a@birdiecare.com, eb8b5de@dickson5786.fsnet.co.uk,
eb97578@jp.ibm.com, eb97596d@ibmjp.vnet.ibm.com, eb@berenbaumlaw.com,
eb@bjornssonpainting.com, eb@carnegie.org, eb@comp-mail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--_com.android.email_7101932640908"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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----_com.android.email_7101932640908
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

filterUsage=0
filterMask=
negateFilter=0
plaintext=1
convertMsgBodyToImage=0
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delayedMessage=0
minutesToDelay=60
Both Short-Term And Long-Lasting Improvements: The Newest Diet Product
It’s never too early to start working on increasing your body's natural weight loss system.
Begin improving your life and health by reading about our incredible weight loss product.
All the powerful ingredients are there to provide both short-term and long-term improvements, you will drop approximately 30 pounds or more, you will lose 5 inches or more off your waist.
The best part: you'll keep all of that off.
You [wouldn’t|would not} believe the wonderful results that you can see on our official site.
To learn all the details you need, click on this URL
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Feqhlq.goodlostfat2.top&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHvbQz2GL4ZSCT9f_4baS5LNr8GjQ

----_com.android.email_7101932640908--

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