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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: "BARRISTER AWELE JONES" <awelebest@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: awelechambers001@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:30:51 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT

INVESTMENT:
Email:awelechambers001@yahoo.com.hk

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have been assigned by Izon Improvement Society, Federal Republic Benin, (the Oil Rich

Community) to seek and enter into contract with any good investor who can Manage the community's

fund.

The source of fund are incomes from Compensations from Oil and Gas companies
operating in the environment. The fund is for the Benefit of the entire community and will be

placed for upward of 10-15yrs with interest remmitted periodically to the community Account as

income from abroad.

Please note that the investor will be interviewed and their guaranttee obtained
before commencement of this transaction. If you have the capacity to manage such fund, mail back

for more detail.

The necessary documents of the fund are available and if you don't have the capacity to manage

the fund US$10,500,000.00 (Twenty Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only)

for long term please, don't apply. Every application will be verified.

Please,all response regarding to this transaction should be directed to the following email

address:awelechambers001@yahoo.com.hk

With best regards,

Mr.Awele Jones
Financial/Legal Advisor
Izon Improvement Society
Federal Republic Benin


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