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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: "mrmusa" <mr_mzongo@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:40:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Be Rest Assured and Call me On Tel: + 229 95 84 49 57.




























Dear Partner VICTIMNAME VICTIMNAME,Once again i am Mr Musa Zongo and am from Benin Republic in weast africa,I thank you so much for your urgent response to my business proposal. It is a pleasure to inform you that the almighty will continue to bless you and your family for your kindness towards mankind and i believe that you have been blessed in various ways by ALMIGHTY.I hereby to notify you that nothing is unlawful in this project as you will be very glad at the end of this transaction which i am here to put you through as an insider here.I got your response and with the devine spirit and faith in me,i am quite confidence that you are willing to participate into this transaction which will definitely be of advantage to both of us.Well,if you will be of honest to me,you will not be supprise to recieve this fund into your designated bank account in your country and after the confirmation of this fund in your account,i will bring an account where you will retransfer my own share to
enable me start up my own investment abroad while you still have yours in your account as agreed upon.If you follow up to my instructions and advice in this transaction, you will recieve a transfer/ delivery signal from our bank within 7 banking working days and you will get this fund released to you but please do not allow our bank to know my involvement with you as partners into this transaction to avoid raising any eyebrows during the transfer of this fund to you but i will be here to give you every needed detail advice and guildline to back up this claim to be on our favor secretly in this bank.Please i will not like a situation where you will sit on top of this fund immediately it gets into your account because this is where our entire family's life of survival relies but if you remain honest to me,you will never regret been my partner.For your finanacial assistance in this deal,you will be compensated with 40% of the total sum of $6.5/7. million USD,while the remaining
60% will be for me and my colleagues for further investments and relocation to your country.I will be send the Official CBB Application Form, which you are required to fill it up with your full recieving bank account informations where you want the funds to be transfered and send it direct to our bank through their foreign remittance email account so that they can start up the processement of this claim for the fund to be release/ transfer to us through any of your bank account without delays.I await your urgent call and reply to enable us proceed accordingly as the urgency implies. Regards.Mr.Musa ZongoTel: + 229 95 84 49 57.







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