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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: ebe2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:00:58 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ATTN=3ASIR?=

ATTN:
I am a director with the Federal Ministry of Finance and was instructed
by the Hon Minister of Finance to find out before the end of this month,WHY
your contract/ claim of your fund have not been credited to your
account, after instructions has been passed to all various Government
quarters that all over due contract/ claim payments should be released as
a lot ofpetitions by beneficiary's has been received by the
Minister.what this office want you to reconfirm, with your telephone and
fax
numbers, any other information, WHY you have not received your payment up-till
date?.However I will give my assistance
to make sure your file is in order for payment as two people came for the
claim of the fund and submitted account saying that you are not
well.but you must give me a promissory note
stating your willingness to give me a reasonable amount of money from your
contract payment immediately you get the payment.
Yours faithfully
Mr Johnny ebe
( Federal Ministry of finance Nigeria)
Please forward your response to my private
email:(ebe_johnny@yahoo.com.hk )
Tel:234-8035601811




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