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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: "Mrs. Fatou B. Touray" <fatout555@outlook.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:31:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Mrs. Fatou B. Touray


Dear friend, Greetings to you and your family, Kindlyaccept my apology for intruding into your privacy. Although we never metbefore, I have every reason to believe that you are a highly respectedpersonality, considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a humanresource profile database on your country. I am the manager of bill and exchange inTHE BANK, I have a business of 5.5 Million United State Dollars to be transferto your account for investment in your country, if you are ready to assist meget back to me, I will give you full details on how the fund will be transferto you.

Be rest assured that everything will behandled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity we cannot afford tomiss, as it will make our family profit a lot. It has been 6 years ago, thatmost of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseasthrough the help of their Political advisers most of the funds which theytransferred out of the shores of Africa weregold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop thecontinent.

The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreignaccounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the fund worth fivemillion five hundred united state dollars I told you about and I am aware thatthere is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts usedfor such transfers of fund at that particle time were closed after transfer.

I am the account officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered thatthey were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of theirbanking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me for the moneywas too much for them to control, as I am sending this message to you, I wasable to divert five point five Millions Dollars ($5.5M)which is in an escrowtransit account belonging to no one in the bank, and now my bank is veryanxious to know the real beneficiary of the funds is for they have made a lotof profits with the fund.

It has been more than five years ago andmost of the politicians are no longer in power again and they don’t use ourbank to transfer funds overseas anymore since their tenure had expired. The$5.5 Million United State Dollars has been lying in the bank as unclaimed fundand I will soon retire from the bank immediately the fund is transfer into youraccount over there Immediately the fund has been successfully transfer intoyour account I will come to your country for the sharing of the fund, the fundwill be shared 50% for me and 40% for you, and the other 10% for the orphanageshome and poor with less-privilege people.

Permit me to request that you shouldreassure me that you will not let me down in any way. On my part, this is myassurance and guarantee to you. In as much as you follow my instructionscarefully, religiously and promptly my guarantee of a hitch-free successremains unshakable. My proposal is highly restricted and shouldbe handled as an urgent transaction requiring trust and confidentiality.

Sincerely,Mrs. Fatou B. Touray. 

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