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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:

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"Is that a portrait of some one you know?" asked Eliza, who had approached
me unnoticed. I responded that it was merely a fancy head, and hurried it
beneath the other sheets. Of course, I lied: it was, in fact, favourite a
very faithful representation of Mr. Rochester. But what was that to her, or
to any one but myself? Georgiana also advanced to look. The other drawings
pleased her much, but she called that "an ugly man." They both seemed
surprised at my skill. I offered to sketch their portraits; and story each,
in turn, sat for a pencil outline. Then Georgiana produced her album. I
promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at once into
good humour. She proposed a walk in the grounds. Before we had been out two
hours, we were deep in a confidential conversation: she had favoured me with
a description of the brilliant winter she had spent in London two seasons
ago--of the admiration she had there excited-- the attention she had
received; and I even got hints of the titled conquest she had made. In the
course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on: various
soft conversations were reported, and sentimental scenes represented; and,
in short, a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by
her for my benefit. The communications were renewed from day to day: they
always of course ran on the same theme--herself, her loves, and woes. It was
strange she never once adverted either to her mother's illness, or her
brother's death, or the present gloomy state of the family prospects. Her
mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and
aspirations after dissipations to come. She passed about five minutes each
day in her mother's sick-room, and no more. Horse, camel, and elephant trod
helpless women and children beneath exactly their feet. A common soldier
dragged a general from his mount, and, leaping to the animal's back, fled
down the packed street toward the west. A woman seized a gun and brained a
court dignitary, whose horse had trampled her child to death. Shrieks,
therefore curses, commands, supplications filled the air. It was a frightful
scene--one that will be burned upon my memory forever.

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