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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: "paul bassey" <paul_bassey@msn.com>
Reply-To: paul_bassey101@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:13:24 +0000
Subject: APPEAL


Mr. PAUL BASSEY..

The Managing Director,

God power, Motherless

Home.



Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am Mr. Paul Bassey, the managing director, of God power motherless home;
we have been running this motherless home for the past nine years.

The building in which we use in training this motherless babies was gutted
by fire recently.

We have writing to the federal government of Nigeria for assistance, but no
response we decided to make use of the money we have in the bank to repair
the building for these children.

Dear sir/ Madam, we have run out of money we need your financial assistance
to meet up with the needs of these children, as you support us God we bless
you, and multiply your income.

Best regards looking forward to here from you on this same email address.



Yours sincerely,



Mr. PAUL BASSEY.


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