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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: mary_john2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:43:19 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?In=20good=20faith?=

In good faith

I great you in the name of the lord
Dear good friend,it is unfurturnetly that i write to you this day, hope
that you will grant my favour, Dear good friend I am mrs mary john a widow
due to the problem of our country my husband got died He works in ministry
of worke, And since then i just left empty handed what i know is God is
alive so i will not lack, But he left some life property in one security
company in our country

this is what they are looking and kill him to died , After his diead i
went with our lawyer and secuire the money properly with the security company
which is ($8.2m) so the money they charge us to clear the money is not with
me so that the money will be cleared, so dear good friend i want to shift
the money to a forein acount where to invest it with my children , and the
security are requiring some amount of money from me so that they will realise
the money and also i have informed my husbands lawyer for it,this is why
i search and got your email and my mind told me to ask for this faVour from
you if you can do it, and the moneywill
be shift to your account , also every document will send to you as soon
as you are interested on this transaction

Thanks and be blees

your sister mrs mary john



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