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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: "Mr Lyioma Iialaoma" <jackie@w54732jq1.homepage.t-online.de>
Reply-To: <mrlyiomalialaoma557@w.cn>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:11:48 -0700
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT HELP NEEDED

Dear Beloved,
 
 
I will highly appreciate your kind attention to this letter.  I was the Farm Manager of Mr. MACLEAN JAXIS CLIFTON Mr. Clifton was a successful white Zimbabwean farmer whose great grandparents migrated  to Zimbabwe during the colonial era. Through succession, he inherited 1000 hectares of farmland called CUMBERLAND OF CLIFTON DOWN in the Gweru Province of Zimbabwe. He was an efficient and hardworking farmer and he earned on the average $1.8Million Us Dollars yearly through the export of Ostriches, Ginger and Tobacco Leaf. Four years back, Mr. Clifton was murdered in a cold blood by the government of Zimbabwe security agents.
As the decision of the Zimbabwe government to forcibly seize the agricultural lands owned by the white farmers became effective, my boss did not surrender his land rather he formed a pressure group of like-minded farmers and thereby organized peaceful demonstration and world press conferences alerting the entire world about the discrimination and intimidation going on in Zimbabwe against white farmers. Incidentally, his opposition did not go down well with the authorities as a result he was murdered extra-judicially subsequent to his unlawful arrest by the law enforcement agencies of Zimbabwe.
However, before Mr. Clifton's death and while the intimidation, harassment and abduction of white farmers reigned, Mr. Clifton sensed danger and being a Christian, a devout catholic, he took most of his valuable documents to a certain Monastery in the outskirts of Harare and handed them over to a Reverend Monk who is a member of a Charitable Organization he belonged to for safe keeping. Only last month I went back to the Reverend Monk and collected the documents under pretext. While carefully going through the documents, I found DEPOSIT SLIP, which has revealed that Mr. Clifton has a CASH DEPOSIT/GOLD DEPOSIT with a financial organization in the West African Region of Republic of Togo.
Under the prevailing circumstances and most importantly my background as a black Zimbabwean, I  cannot claim the deposit hence I am writing your good self, soliciting your support, full co-operation and involvement to come forward as Mr. Cliftons business associate. I shall as soon as I have your firm commitment to join hands with me to actualize the retrieval of the CASH AND GOLD DEPOSIT come forward with satisfactory documentary evidence as well as the master plan approach.
Please do contact me immediately through my email address listed below.
 
Thank you for your kind attention.
Mr Lyioma Iialaoma
mrlyiomalialaoma557@w.cn

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