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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: "ALFRED MBENGANI" <alfred1mbengani@yahoo.com.au> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alfred1mbengani@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:31:15 +0100
Subject: MACHINE PROPOSAL

Atten,
It is my pleasure to write this letter to you, i know it will be a strenge to you beacuse you don't know me, but frist of all, let me introduce myself to you, my name is alfred mbengani , i am from sierra-loen,am currently living in Dakar Senegal .
Well my porpose of writing to you is that i have money printing Machine here in Dakar Senegal it was deposited in highy security company by my late father well, i am the next inheritance so my porpose of writing this to you is to let you know that i am searching for an honest and trustwothy person who i can work with to transfer the machine to your country where we can print more money with the machine.
So please if you are intrested contact me by my private email address alfred1mbengani@terra.com.mx or you can contact me by phone number 00221 5510729
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thanks.
Your sincerely .
Mr Alfred Mbengani.


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