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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: "andrew mbeki" <andrewmbeki@msn.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:34:59 +0000
Subject: From Andrew Mbeki

Good Day,

I am Andrew Mbeki, I need you to assist me in this transaction. During the
course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in a domiciliary
account opened in my bank in 1994 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this
account, after going through some old files in the records.

I discovered that the owner of the account who is a foreigner, A German
Mr.Wolfgang Schinister, 66 years of age. He has $17.3 million in a
domiciliary account, Unfortunately, he was killed in the plane crash
involving concord AF4590 in Gonesse, France.

Efforts had been made by the management of my Bank through the German
Embassy in Pretoria South Africa to contact any of the deceased children but
to no avail and without any traceable next of kin.I remited this money out
urgently and sent it to the security company. I am seeking for a reliable
and honest person who will be capable to provide an existing bank account or
person who can be able to go to security company to receive this fund.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be
approved for a local account, but the fund can only be approved to any
foreigner or into a foreign account.

Thanks.
Mr.Andrew Mbeki.
Email: andrewmbeki@uku.co.uk
Email: andrewmbeki@msn.com


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