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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: "Kojo William" <kojowilliam9@msn.com>
Reply-To: kojowilliam@email.ro
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:42:18 +0000
Subject: I CARE FOR YOU

Dear Sir,
I am Mr.Kojo William personal assistant to late Mr. President Eyadema
of Togo who died on 5th Feb., 2005. My boss Mr. President trusted the sum
of $15m to me that I should go and lodge the money in account in France
with any Bank of my choice there. Before I could make an arrangement for the
deposit of the fund, what i heard is that the President has dropped
dead. I quickly moved out the fund to a country called Madrid Spain and
lodge
the money in a security company there since there is nobody who knows any
thing about the Money. Now that this fund has been secure in a security
company,what i want is an honest individual not company who i will
trust to go and claim this fund on my behalf and hold it untill things
become
normal in my Country again and then i will come over there in your own
country
for the sharing of the Money as agreed by me and the person on percentage
ground.50% for us,40% for you and 10% will be set aside to cover
expences made by both parties.
Please if you are interested to help me please get back to me through
this
email: (kojowilliam@email.ro) immediately you receive this mail.

Sincerely Yours
Kojo William
Former P.A. to Late President Eyedama of Togo Rep.


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