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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: "koffi Desmond" <koff_k79@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: koffimr_0@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:12:58 +0000
Subject: Salam Aleikum

Salam Aleikum

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your
overseas account the sum of (10.5M USD)Ten million five hundred thousand
United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal.

I am Mr Desmond Koffi (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime
banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I
discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and
till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old
files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long
ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[Heir/WILL],
hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of the account was a foreigner , Engr.Sam .A. Taha, an estate
consultant .

Therefore, with a personal conviction of trust and confidence, I wish to
contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative, thus I can work out the
release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the
account, please be assured of the risk free, I'm the one that will work it
out , all I need is your cooperation because the account content can not be
approved to an indigen here as his next of kin .

At the conclusion of this project , I propose a joint investment of an equal
partnership to you or we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 55% for
me.

One more thing please; I beg you don't consider this against moral
justification , they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with
this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than
having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE .

I look forward to your earliest response
Yours Truly

Mr Desmond Koffi.

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