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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: SIZAL LOTTO <sizallotto@zwallet.com>
Reply-To: sizalclaims@zwallet.com
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:22:46 -0800
Subject: URGENT CALL FOR INVESTMENT CONTACT


Goodday sir
you may be surprised this mail reaching you without knowing me or see me face to face ,i am barrister GODDART FINNAN WEST ,from south africa ,but based here in italy,due to my profession a highly respected barrister from ,SAVANNA JUDICIARIES AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE,and i get your contact through internet trading journal here in italy thereby contacting you on the opportunity i have here in my office ,but due to my position i cannot be able to do anything that is contrary to the law of the conutry thats why am contacting you in helping out my topmost client and his family out in regards to my position, ANTONIO FAZIO the governor of BANCA D'ITALIA was my client and on january 18th he was probe in connection with 50.0000.000 .000 million(US DOLLARS) of UNIPOL INSURANCE COMPANY, and this probe was found out as result of telephone interseption between the governor of unipol.along the line the sum of amount was found in his account in three banks,but due to his position he cannot be jailed because his voice did not appear very well ,so since am the only one to be contacted,in defending him with some italian lawyers,he called me to order,and give me the full details of the were the money was kept , and he also instruct me to look capable hands in handling it outside the conutry for safe keeping and durable investment and this money was in (3) three reputable italian banks ,here in italy ,the names of these banks are as follows ,SANPAOLO, UNICREDIT BANCA,BANCA DI SICILIA, for more clarification on this go to cnn/alerts/brokening news.com of 18th january 2006. please am contacting you with absolute confidentiality that you will not divolge this secret ,with these i reach an agreement,with him that anybody who will assist in moving the account in any conutry of his choice will be offered 20% while the remaining 75%will be for the family ,beside will be rewarded abundantly with some landed properties in his home town called TOSCANA,but before any thing please check out the existence of this banks before ,contacting me
barristergoddfin@netscape.net
N/B,that absolute confidentiality is required due my position in the society please and this fund is free from drug and laundering related issues

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