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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: romack william <romackwilliam003@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <michael_ikonso124@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:43:57 +0100
Subject: contact my secretary for your compensation



Dear Friend, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferredunder the cooperation of a new partner from paraguay. Presently i'm inParaguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me intransferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Michael Ikonso onmichael_ikonso124@myway.com ask him to send you the total of $900.000.00 which ikept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assistme in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. sofeel free and get in touched with my secretary mr.Ikonso and instruct himwhere to send the amount to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share thejoy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I’m very busy herebecause of the investment projects which me and the new partner are havingat hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretaryon your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch withMichael Ikonso, he will send the amount to you without any delay. Best Regards,Romack William.
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