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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: "Mr. Patrick Nelson " <"www."@cronos.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Patrick Nelson " <npatrick482@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 07:47:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention please

Attention please read and understand how you won this fund, wish is $8.5 USD and the fund was registered in our Company DHL DELIVERY COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC, by Coca Cola Group Of Company with statement that you won Coca Cola monthly fund Promo with your email address which they instructed our company to get it delivered to your home address and all other needed paperwork are complete only these two which Is Anti-Terrorist Certificate and International Clearance Permit are not paste on the Box because you the owner of the fund supposed to get it obtain with your name and your signature on it , and that is why the custom officers asked for it.
Meanwhile I know that you cannot be able to get the paperwork obtained by yourself because it has to come directly from the origin country of your fund which is Benin Republic so I called my boss and ask him about the paperwork and he said it will cost you sum of $200 usd only, to get it obtain and forward it to me for immediate delivery of your fund.
agent Patrick Nelson

Reconfirm below information to the company.

1. YOUR FULL NAME: -----------------------
2. YOUR HOME ADDRESS: -----------------------
3. YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE: -----------------------
4. YOUR ZIP CODES: -----------------------
5. YOUR COUNTRY: -----------------------
7. YOUR AGE: -----------------------

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