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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: BLOOD KILLER <bloodkiller_6661@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <bloodkiller_sss@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:15:37 +0000
Subject: YOUR BEST FRIEND WANT TO KILL YOU;;;;;;



Bad Day, I want you to read this message very carefully, and keep the secret with you till further notice, You have no need of knowing who i am, where am from, till i make out a space for us to meet and discuss the whole situation if you agree to my terms, i have being paid US$10,000.00 in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employers, it's one i believe you call a close friend, i have followed you closely for one week and three days now and have seen that you are innocent of the accusation, Now do not contact the police or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do i will know as i have contact every where with the police and other security agent, and might be pushed to do what i have being paid to do, beside, this is the first time I turned out to be a betrayer in my job.
Now, listen, i will arrange for us to see face to face but before that i need the amount of US$20,000.00 and you will have nothing to be afraid of. I will be coming to see you in your office or home determine where you wish we meet, do not set any camera to cover us or set up any tape to record our conversation, my employer is in my control now, You will need to pay US$10,000.00 to the account i will provide for you before we will set our first meeting, after you have make the first advance payment to the account, i will give you the full information of my employer and video and audio tape conversation with him that contains his request for me to terminate you, which will be enough evidence for you to take him to court (if you wish to), then the balance will be paid later.You don’t need my phone contact for now till am assured you are ready to comply positively. Once more i shall remain anonymous,however,you have no alternatives other than to co-operate positively and do as i said or face the brewing storm.You must also trust that as long as you keep your part of the deal,i shall too keep mine and live up to my words.This time i am holding the trump card and shall put it to effective use if you fail to co-operate positively as requested.Any move by you other than co-operation will have catastrophic consequenses to you. I wait for your response urgently to settle this and counter my employer directives against you immediately.Thanks you for your attention. BLOOD KILLER.
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