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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: johnmark01@freenet.de
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:00:48 +0200
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY IN BENIN FOR YOUR COMPENSATION


Attn, My Dear Friend.
I\'m happy to inform you about my success in
getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner
from Paraguay. Presently I am in Paraguay 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 .
Now
contact my secretary, his name is John Wiggins on (
financeofficeministry@yahoo.fr) ask him to send you the total
$2,500.000.00
TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USDOLLARS ONLY 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 in touch with my secretary and instruct him
where to send the amount 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 am very busy
here because of the investment
projects which me 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 Mr. John
Wiggins he will send the amount to you without any delay.
Please fill
the gaps below to enable him reach to you safely.

FULLNAME:.....................................
CURRENT MAILING
ADDRESS:.......................
HOME TELEPHONE
NUMBER:........................
OFFICE
NUMBER:.................................
OCCUPATION......................................
COUNTRY..........................................
SEX............................................
AGE............................................

With best regards.
Dr Ceaser Eze










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