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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: Mr Ahmed Bello <mrahmedbello2@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:29:42 -0400
Subject: Compensation fee for your past efforts!




Dear Friend,

Greetings. I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Asia. Presently i am in Asia for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that you never believed me. Now contact my secretary in Republic of Benin his name is Dr James Hakeem,his e-mail is:a(drjameshakeem@hotmail.fr) and you can also call him with his private telephone number +229 97285978 Ask him to send you a check of $1.2m which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get intouched with Dr James Hakeem and instruct him where to send the cheque to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with him he will send the amount to you without any delay. Regards,Mr Ahmed Bello.
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