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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: beevmurray@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:39:08 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Beverly=20Murray=2E?=

Hello,

My name is Mrs. Beverly Murray. A complete citizen of the United State
of America, widow to the late former director of finance in Philippine who
was a victim of the terrorist attack against the United State of America
on the 11th September 2001 that aimed at the World Trade Centre in New York
.

I inherited a total sum of $10 million dollars from my late husband,
a proceed of a contract did. this money which is concealed in a metallic
trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company at Ivory Coast
under a secret arrangement as a family treasure. This mean's that the security
company does not know the content of this box that was deposited with them.

I came to you for the purpose of retrieving this box of money to any
address that you think is very secure and save in place with your percentage
of which we shall disscus in due course. There is need for urgent action
because I'm paying $50 dollars per day as a demurrage to the security company
for keeping this consignment.

I thank you immensely for your anticipated co-operation as I look forward
to hear from you soonest.


Best Regard,

Madam Beverly Murray



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