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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: BARISTER SANI MOHAMADE <barister_sanimohamade@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 03:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Attn: Amarjit Singh


Attention:

Dear Sir/Madam.

My name is Mohamade Sani and I work in the legal department of the Economic & Financial Crime Commission EFCC.

We have official report that you have been corned by some unscrupulous element in the society of your money. This commission was set up by the president to fight and bring this kind of people to book. We at the commission is not relenting in our efforts to fight this curse till we have make sure that crime is eliminated in our country.

To this regard, you are therefore advice to forward to us the information of those that have ripe you off your hard earned money so that we will recover your money back to you.

I look forward to your prompt and positive reply.

Yours sincerely,

Barr Sani Mohamade.


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