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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: Paul Jonn <drpauljonn@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drpauljonn1@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:49:15 +0200
Subject: Hello....!!

Dear Friend how are you and your family.

My name is Dr.Paul Jonn, the director general, Africa Develop
bank(ADB) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,in West Africa. I am contacting
you to seek your honesty and sincere cooperation in confidential
manner to transfer the sum of 10.2 (Ten million Two hundred thousand
Dollars) to your existing or new bank account.

This money belongs to one of our bank client, who died on Air crash
with his family member. Our bank is planning to transfer this entire
fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed fund if nobody
comes to claim the money from our bank after four years without
account activities.

We did not know each other before, but due to the fact that the
deceased is a foreigner, the bank will welcome any claim from a
foreigner without any suspect, that is why I decided to look for
someone whom I can trust to come and claim the fund from our bank.

I will endorse your name in the deceased client file here in my office
which will indicate to that the deceased is your legal joint account
business partner or family member next of kin to the deceased and
officially the bank will transfer the fund to your bank account within
seven working days in accordance to our banking inheritance rules and
fund claim regulation.

I will share 50% for you and 50% for me after the fund is transferred
to your bank account, we need to act fast to complete this transaction
within seven days. I will come to your country to collect my share
after the fund is transferred to your bank account in your country. I
hope that you will not disappoint me after the fund is transferred to
your bank account in your country.

Please I want you to send me your private phone number so that I can
call you to discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project

Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards
Dr.Paul Jonn.

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