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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: mariem2004@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:43:15 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ASAP?=

Dear Sir,
This letter may come to you as a surprise.
I am the wife of the late head of state of Nigeria General Sani
Abacha,my late husband left huge amount of money in my custody before he
died.
I am soliciting for your assistance to help me claim fund consealed in three
metal boxes deposited in a security company abroad,my main problem now is
that the government of my country is sezing all our asset and after us the
entire family,what I need from you is to help me claim $20m usd deposited
in security company.
You are to keep the fund in your account till you and I finalize on how
to meet.
I intend that if you accept my offer you will be given 30% of the total
money after claim.
If you accept this ,I will instruct my personal lawyer to contact you for
onward processing of the claim,I will give you all the necessary back up
relating to the claim,due to the coplexity of this transaction I will prefer
we work out a way for communicating each other.
View the site below and see what they did to my family http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_741000/741506.stm

I will be waiting to hear from you soon
Regards.
Hajia Mariam Abacha




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