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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: "Ida Thomas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <idathomas097@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:15:02 -0800
Subject: Can We Do Business Together,

Dear Friend,
Can We Do Business Together,
My name is Miss Ida Thomas I am from california.I work with the [UN] UNited Nation as pecial Force Commandant,presently we are in Syria on a peace keeping mission. I need your assistant only if you can be trusted in investing $10,000,000.00 USD (Ten Million Dollars) and 500 KILO GRAMS OF GOLDS & 1000 KILO GRAMS OF DIAMONDS with the cash sum of that mentioned above, Please if you are interested and have any question towards this, kindly email me back so that we can be able to discuss every step towards achieving success on this and also discuss our sharing ratio at the end of this business. Contact me on my private email [ idathomas097@gmail.com ] hope its not much to ask?
Respectfully,
Miss Ida Thomas

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