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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: "Colonna Robert" <obinagu6@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:18:33 +1200
Subject: FUND TRANSFER OFFER

Attantion Please:

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS.

In order to transfer out US$ 25,500,000 dollars (Twenty Five Million, Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ) from First National Bank (FNB), I have the
courage to contact you if you are interested and willing to help transfer
this fund outside South Africa to your country for investment.Please
consider this as deal between both of us,and we are going to sign an
agreement before we take off.

For the purpose of intoduction, I am Mr. Robert Colonna, an Auditor in the
First National Bank of South Africa, there was an account opened in this
bank since 1990 and since then nobody has operated this account from 2002 to
date, the original owner is dead, his information according to a file in my
office, he died since 1991 and his name is Mr Joseph Andreas, a foreigner .

Following this development, I want to transfer this fund in any overseas
account, this is a deal if you are interested, your personal account
details,also your contact phone number are needed for easy communication, be
rest assured that this transaction will only last for three weeks, I have
agreed to offer you 30% of the total money, 70% will be for my investment{s}
in your country or any other country you may deem safe.

I would be appreciative of your urgent and confidential treatment of this
matter.Kindly contact me on this email: colona1@myway.com for more details.

Best regards,

Mr. Robert Colonna.

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