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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: "Manfred T. Janu" <manfred_t_janu@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 06:42:18 +0000
Subject: THANKS

Thanks for your website,
My name is manfred from Australia, I have
fall a victim once in Nigeria and three times from FRANCE, after everything,
the same scamers opened a website and signed it very WELL as you people did,
After that they advice me to open www.nigeriascam.com that I should stop any
further communication with the Nigeria, that the money we are talking about
is in France, can you imaging, I spent more than half a million dollars to
Rene Davies a white man in france, that is why I did not believe any
website, all are the same, I will not report anything to you people, all are
the same.

FUCK YOU, FUCK FUCK, KISS MY ASS YOU 419 DECIVERS, FRANCE IS TALK OF THE
COUNTRY ABOUT SCAMS INSTEAD OF NIGERIA, I WILL REPORT YOU PEOPLE TO FBI.

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