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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: "Agatre" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info@innercity.uk.pn>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 05:52:00 +0100
Subject: Corporate Venture project


I write to seek your partnership in handling of future Investment in your country. My name is
George Agatre, I represent the interest of some wealthy politicians from North and Southern
African countries, names withheld, who are interested in investing huge in your country's
economy and thus I make this contact with you to discuss the possibilities of a good
profit yielding venture.

My clients does not want to deal with the people they knew before nor have this investment
done with those that have done things with them in the previous, thus they asked me to open
a fresh contact with individuals/companies, capable of handling investment and who will like
to speak with me as regards to this.

If you would like to talk with me as per this matter, please write an email to this email address:
info@innercity.uk.pn and I will get back to you with more details.

George Agatre
Shepton Mallet
Somerset County
England

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