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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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Fraud email example:

From: mason ryan <masonryan10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <j_williams212@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:46:25 -0600
Subject: PLEASE ACCEPT OUR TOKEN



UK NATIONAL LOTTERY1-3 Leinster Gardens, London W2 6DP LondonFROM: THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR(WINNING DEPT.)

Dear Winner,

We wish to inform you that we just revisited you case. We are very sorry that you didn't get the money you won in our prestigious lottery programme which was held some time ago.

We wish to apologize for all the delays and inconveniences we may have cause you it was due to the incompetence of some of our staff and they have been relieved of their duties.

We want to make it up to you because we run a prestigious organization and events like this can tarnish our image.
We have there by decided to compensate you with the sum of $500,000.00.(Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) We know this is not the original amount you won but due to the fact that the funds available at the moment is limited,because all the outstanding winners has been paid for the year.
We want to make sure we settle everything for this year,so that we can all have a wonderful christmas with our money.

We will not be sending you your winnings through any courier company because of the previous problems we have experienced with various monitoring bodies. We heard about all the troubles you have been through and we wish to correct that.

Your $500,000.00.(Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) has been deposited with the central bank in Nigeria because they have the power to transfer any amount of money without problems. Remember that your winnings was also processed in Nigeria and the funds is still available in Nigeria

I have personally pleaded with the central bank Governor Prof. Charles Soludo to handle the whole issue himself and he has assured me that nothing will go wrong.

This is his personal e-mail address, mmm@soludocharles.cn.ms
I want you to contact him immediately so that he will attend to you. He is a very busy man,I will advice you to be very quick with whatever you want to do,now that he has agreed to help us.
We are truly vey sorry for all the problems we may have caused you.

Make sure you cantact him through this e-mail address mmm@soludocharles.cn.ms

RegardsNupert Brown Overall Co-ordinator

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