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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: m duke <m.duke004@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mark_don57@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:55:43 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND



FROM MORRIS DUKE+ 229 9 3 41 13 48 DEAR FRIEND, Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am Mr morris duke, the director incharge of Bill and Exchange of One of the leading bank in west coast Africa. I deem it fit to contact you regarding to a transaction that will be of favour to both of us at the end, and i got your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable person tohelp me claim the fundin question. We discovered the sum of 13 million one hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD13.1M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been lying in a suspence accountwithout anybody coming to put claim over the fund since the account owner lateMr.Mohamed Mohd from lebanon, who was involved in the December 25th Benin plane crash. Here is the air crashwebsite= http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank. The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the deceased and respond positively like a true next ofkin who wishes to speed up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund is not claimed by the end of this year, the government of the Federal Republic of Benin will take over the ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government to take over the ownership of this fund, tha is why I contacted you for us to do the deal together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to thedeceased whose name is Mr.Mohamed Mohd. If you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 30% of the total sum,10% will set aside to upset any expenses incured onthe course of making this transaction a success while I and my colleagues involved will take 60% of the total sum. Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect thetransfer within 7 working days.Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra responssibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and normally you will be required to maintain absolute information and absolute secracy throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction. I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end. Mr morris duke. +229 9 3 41 13 48
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