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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: "Jozef & Associates" <carlos607@z6.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: jozef_carlos@walla.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:19:07 +0000
Subject: For Your Kind Attenion

For Your Kind Attenion:
My name is Legaet Jozef Carlos,I am a Belgian Citizen and legal adviser /consultant to the Iraqi top government official who will not want like his name to mentioned or get involved in this transaction for some security reasons which you and I must have known due to his present position and current scandal at the united nations. As a member of the Iraq OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME alot of commission was accrued from the accumulated supplies of medicines and food to the embattled Iraq which now aggregate to $5.2 Million USD with his direct company name .To this effect, my client has finalised arrangement with Finance Ministry of Iraq and Iraqi contract review panel to secure approval with a neutral name who will claim contract commission which payment is in progress presently and it will be perfected within three bank working days with your full co-operation and be informed that you are entitle to 20% of the amount in question ,my own commission is 10% of the amount and the remaining 70% which belon

gs to my client and his associates will be invested in your company products for immediate importation .

Please note that you do not need to travel to Iraq since the payment will be effected through United Nations/New Iraq government accredited banks in Washington DC, United States of America or other affiliated payment commissions in Europe,You are only required to forward to me the following information
1.Your bank information for inclusion in the application for the change of the payment /transfer order to your company name or You could open another bank account if you are not very comfortable giving out your bank detail..
2.Your company certificate of operation or registration from your country.
3.Your direct telephone and fax number for transmission of the relevant approvals to you.
Consequently,upon the receipt of the above information ,we shall use your company name to secure immediate approval from the Iraq ministry of finance ,which will authorise the transfer of the USD$5.2m from the in Washington DC to your nominated bank account since you know that my client will perfected all arrangement within 72 hours as earlier confided to you before. Please note that as soon as the approve is given we will forward all the international documents that will back up the fund internationally as aganist any international fund transfer law .
I will like to understand you better to enable us establish a level of trust necessary for the execution of this transaction.Therefore I shall scan and send you my international passport upon the receipt of all your information.
And I must inform you again that all necessary modalitties have been put in place to ensure smooth payment of the fund into your account.I will be in your country as soon as the money hits your account for the sharing for the immediate shippment of your company products or his share can be invested with you on special agreement on behalf of my clients request.
you are also advised to make this transaction a top secret due to the people involved.
I look forward to your urgent response.
Barrister Legaet Jozef Carlos
Jozef & Associates
No.2 Avenue Abdoulaye FADIGA
Dakar,Senegal


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