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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: "Mr. John Wanoa" <morenoglen@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: "Mr. John Wanoa" <rrdinvestment@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 11:01:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re-co-operation




 
Hello,

I know you will be surprise receiving this massage but feel free and let work together. I humbly appeal for your cooperation, I am opportune to converse with you in this medium of  communication. I am JOHN WANOA financial director. I am contacting you for a  business transaction of sixteen million eight hundred thousand British Pounds. I am using this moment to give you the cognizance and also to seek your assistance to this business proposal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of sixteen million eight hundred thousand British Pounds during our Bank's annual year account auditing, this account is dormant for years and has no beneficiary attached to it. Definitely, this fund will be confiscated by our banking ethics if it remains dormant for a period of ten year without any claims.

In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund. Please, do not view this as being illegal or to a third party but an opportunity for us to enrich our hope to help the less privilege instead of the bank converting this fund into government treasury.

All required arrangements have been made for the smooth transfer of these funds into your account and your acceptance is what will crown this effort. It will be my interest to finish this transaction with you hoping that you will not cheat or blackmail me at the conclusion of this goal.

If you can be a collaborator to this transaction, please indicate your positive interest immediately for us to proceed. I will appreciate you give me a call any time on receipt of this e-mail. Please include your mobile number for oral communication.

Thanks and God bless you.

JOHN WANOA

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