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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "tony wix" <tonywix13@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 06:56:34 +0000
Subject: hello to you

Hello friend,
My name is mr Tony wix,Am an auditor in one of the bank here in London.
At the end of the last year auditing,i discovered a dormant account of 10.5
million us dollars,exisiting since past five years.on investigation, i
discovered that the owner mr smith died on world trade center bomb attack in
usa living no beneficiary to the account. l plead for your assistance to
transfer this money to your side.This money is floating if i do not remit
this money out it will forfeited for noting.
our management will give anybody that provide correct informtion of the
account the money,which i will give you. ls not an easy to do but as an
insider in the bank, i will go to database and change the beneficary on your
name hence i see your willingness to do the
bussiness.Your full name,phone number and address is needed to change
the beneficiary.i will give you 20% of the money. ls a risk free
transaction.
Tony

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