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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "contact me immediately" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "sani abacha" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • marianabachamail@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.MARIAN ABACHA" <marianabachamail@yahoo.es> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 02:48:42 +0100
Subject: Good Day To You,

Good Day To You,

I am Mrs. Marian Abacha, the wife of the Late Head of State of Nigerian
General Sani Abacha. I contacted you because our government has frozen almost
all Our Family's Account and auctioned all our properties. To save Our Family
from total bankruptcy, I managed and shipped out the sum of "Twenty Nine
Million U.S Dollars" ($29.000.000) kept by my late husband via Diplomatic
arrangement in Two Metal Boxes.

The Money was disguised to beat the Nigerian Security Agents and it is
currently deposited in overseas with a Security Company. I want you to help
me to invest the Money in your country and I am offering you 20% for
assisting me to secure the Money into your bank account for an investment.
You can go through this web-site below and see it yourself, where they
declared My Late Husband's junior Brother by name; Alhaji Abdulkadir Abacha
wanted, in struggle to confiscate the Money.

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=2,

Please if this proposal is acceptable to you, contact me immediately on my
Private Email Address Bellow; So that I can forward to you, all the necessary
details about this transaction.

Note that this transaction is risk free because the money has left our
country. Meanwhile, in your reply; remember to send me your Private Telephone
Number for further discussion.

I wait for your quick response.

Yours Sincerely,

Marian Abacha (Mrs).

Reply to: marianabachamail@yahoo.es

Anti-fraud resources:

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