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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: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?tani=20oude?=" <tani_oude002@ciudad.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:13:00 -0300
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REMITTANCE=20OF=20$18M=20U.S=20DOLLARS?=

I am Mr.Tani Oude. from Burkina Faso.I want to seek your assistance after my discovery during auditing in my bank as the manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foriegn Remittance Dept.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$18M US dollars in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family during the Iraq war in 2006.I will be very much greatful you join me transfer this fund.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 60 % would be for me, Therefore after I and my family will visit you in your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your’s faithfully,
Mr Tani Oude.





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