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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: "morris nakita" <morrisnakita01@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:54:56 +0200
Subject: FROM MORRIS NAKITA

Dear Sir,
PHONE +27-78-2111-819


My name is Mr. Morris Nakita, I worked as a clerk in a well respected
security firm, with a head office at Johannesburg South Africa. I am
contacting you because of an urgent business transaction that I want to
execute with a trusted foreigner, I got your email information from one of
my good friend who works with South Africa's Chamber of Commerce and
industry on foreign business relations here in Johannesburg South Africa
though I did not disclose the deal to him. When he gave me your email
address, I did not ask him his source because I trusted his judgment, having
known him for
a very long time.

On the 25th of November 2003, the sum of $36,000,000 Thirty Six Million
United States Dollars was deposited with my company, disguised as a FAMILY
HEIRLOOM in a trunk box, this is not the only
time that corrupt Government officials uses the services of my company to
ship their ill gotten wealth abroad or secure it for future use. I took
exceptional note of this deposit because it was
large and as I was working directly under the woman at the helm of affairs
then, I got to know the man behind the deposit, Late President Gnassingbe
Eyadema of the Republic of Togo who died on
February 2005.

The reason for my contacting you is that I checked and found out that the
deposit is still intact and nobody has asked for it, and I know that nobody
will ever ask for it, I am the only living witness
who knows the true identity of the depositor, because I pretended to be
seriously engaged at work one day when everybody has left the office, I
quietly opened the company's underground and I found out that the trunk box
was filled with bills of dollar notes, it was through a computerized
security component which I collected from one white woman living behind my
apartment that helped me in this discovery, as I cannot possibly open the
trunk box.

However the woman who happens to be the helm of the company's affairs then
happens to be my Sugar Mummy, we were dating, though secretly. She happens
to be a politician, to that fact she resigned her appointment as the
director of operation of the company and went fully into politics. To this
end she contested for the post of the Health Minister, it was during this
process that she got assassinated by unknown Gunmen. African Policians been
whom they are, were the most deadly of all politicians, they killed this
reputable woman in cold blood. I suspected such and that is why I
tried to prevent her from contexing but she declined my advice. She was a
divorcee with 3 kids.

Consequently after the sudden death of my Boss I was dismissed from my job,
as well and no other living soul in the company knows about this fact. My
dismissal was simply out of jealousy as people were beginning to suspect our
relationship. All these were possible because we were dates then and I used
wisdom as her lover boy and smartly find out from her the underground secret
code to allow me access, hence she believed I meant no harm by asking. I did
this because I knew right deep in my heart that I was never going to get
married to her hence she is already married and considering age difference
too. I needed to be a man of myself and independence too
both financially and martially.

More so I want to disclose to to you that no other person can retrieve the
deposit except the person that can produce the codes combination, which was
given to the depositor. The way the company operates is that if the
depositor wants to retrieve his/her deposit, he or she will instruct the
company in writing and give his/her codes and if the manager confirms the
code, the deposit
will be released at once to the person, no name or identification is needed
provided the codes are proven to be correct.

If you accept to work with me, I will give you the instruction letter to
send to my company and also when the company asks for the codes, I will give
them to you. Please if you are not interested in
this business let me know so that I can contact someone else. As you can see
am no longer working with this company but I know all their secrets
therefore, I will be giving you every directives as
you may need them, one at a time. We shall deliberate on how we can share
the money after the company releases it to you on your arrival here. Most
importantly I would suggest you get prepared to come down to this very
country so that after the release of the consignment both of us shall take
our leave to your country for necessary disbursement and for the immediate
investments of the
funds as well. No risk involves, nothing to be afraid of. This country is a
virgin land, it is very peaceful. I can only be satisfied with your
readiness to work this perfectly with me, if
you would fastly get prepared to be here by yourself, in other to make the
claim hitch free.

My best regards.

Mr. Morris Nakita.

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