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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: "steve cool" <stevecoolza@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:34:40 +0200
Subject: PAYMENT DETAILS (FROM STEVE COOL)

Dear Bakari Hashim ,

We are in receipt of your mail and we wish to inform you that all
arrangments have been finally concluded to effect the transfer of your
winnings to your account details once we finish the verification exercise.Do
note that we recently took delivery of the total winnings from our sponsors.


The funds have been fully insured by this organisation and deposited with
our paying bankers FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB),from where the
funds will be transfered.
You are advised as a matter of urgency to provide us with the following
informations so that we will proccess your clerance and issue same to our
paying bankers for them to make the neccessary transfer to your account
details.


1: YOUR FULL RESIDENTIAL OR OFFICE ADDRESS
2; YOUR CONTACT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
3:THE ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFERED.

Once we get this details, we will proccess your winnings and advise the bank
to effect remittance
Congratulations
Steve Cool
Claim Agent
27-73-1751820

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