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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: jbrown@shelbynews.com
Date:
Subject: We hacked your system!

Hello,

We've hacked your system. To show you we have complete access to it we've delivered you this message from your own private email account (see the "from" mail address). We also know that one of the passwords you used to use is "4920r8C" for example. Don't stress, we will explain how it all happened and what you can do about it.

Some time ago you visited a website with mature content, that website had a trojan that was created by us, this trojan installed itself on your device opening a backdoor that gives us full access onto your device. Changing passwords will not help as our backdoor will constantly remain open if we don't close it ourselves.
We furthermore saved all your social contacts, email contacts, data and information to our server. Moreover we triggered your cam every once in awhile and recorded videos of you while you "pleased" yourself observing adult material on the internet. Those videos are also stored on our server. To sum up we now have all your important information and some "dirty" videos of you.
You are probably asking yourself what we are going to do with this material. Possibly we use it to destroy your social life by sending all the information we posses with browser history and the naughty clips of you to all your social and mail contacts. Picture the negative impact this will have on your life! Think about how this will impact the relationship with your loved ones! Or maybe we delete it all, shut the backdoor on your device and don't utilize it and you can go on living your life like this never happened. It's all your decision....

When you opened up this e-mail our system activated a timer (our system monitors the email header to see when you launched it), starting now you have 6 hours (6 hours is 6 hours, not a moment more) to perform the following action:

Down below you will find our bitcoin address (copy/paste it, it's case sensitive). If you do not want us to ruin your social life and relationship with your family members you will need to transfer $590 (USD) to it. You can search Google how you can buy bitcoins, it is very easy and you can do it instantly. Keep in mind that you have to do this within the given timeframe so you better do it right away.
Our system is monitoring this address, when the transaction appears in time the timer will quit counting, we will delete all the info on our server we have on you, the backdoor on your system will terminate and you will definitely never ever hear from us again... case closed and nobody needs to discover about your nasty secrets. If it does not come in on a timely manner, your life will change in a very damaging way.

Our bitcoin address: 3EVEbixEK9dkAyJJmXW4SSs6SR4SELtstz

Good-luck!

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