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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: "Chris Jones" <chrisjones4005@aol.fr>
Reply-To: chrisjones38@terra.com
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 02:25:14 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT


Good day,

I have a business proposal which I would like to discuss with you confidentially.

I assisted a certain (Libyan) General by name (Mohammed Hadiya Al-Feitouri) to hide certain amount of his funds here in the UK, the general who was later on involved in the Libyan Crisis which claimed his life along the line.

I assisted him to hide the funds with a disguise Chinese name and the amount is a total of US$75,000,000.00 (Seventy-Five Million United States Dollars).
The bank manager where the funds was kept is aware of the deal and has agreed with me for us nominate you as the beneficiary of the funds since no one will ever come for the money because no next of kin was written in any document with the bank and the vault is a private vault.

If you accept to receive the funds as the beneficiary you will be given US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars) and the bank manager and I will share the remaining.

This transaction has no risks because the bank manager of the bank holding the money is directly involved.

To indicate your interests send the bellow details to me via this my private email address: chrisjones38@terra.com <mailto:chrisjones38@terra.com> for easy communication between us.

INDIVIDUAL NAME.............................................
COMPANY NAME................................................
MOBILE NUMBER...............................................
OFFICE NUMBER...............................................
FAX NUMBER..................................................
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.........................................
COMPANY ADDRESS.............................................
PERSONAL EMAIL..............................................
COMPANY EMAIL...............................................

I will hope for your co-operation.

Sincerely Yours,


Chris Jones
Tel: +44 7024076787

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