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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: felix.agu@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:37:53 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONTACT=20MY=20SECRETARY=20IN=20BENIN=20REPUBLIC=20IMMEDIATELY=20?=

Att;My dear,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered
under the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay.
Presently i'm in paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the
total sum.meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit
me in transffering those funds
despite that it failed us somehow. Now contact my secretary in
BENIN his name is Elicia Hamed,his email;
(sisterelicia_hamed1@yahoo.ca)
ask her to send you the total $800.000.00 (EIGTH HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS)certified
bank draft which i raised in your favour for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist
me in this matter.
i appreciated your efforts at that time very much.
so feel free and get intouched with my secretary Elicia Hamed, and give
her youraddress where to send the draft to you. Please do let me know immediately
you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at
that time.in the moment, i'm very busy here because
of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand,
finally,remember that i had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your

behalf to receive that money,so feel free to get intouch with Elicia Hamed
without any delay
best regard
Felix Agu






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