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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: "pashaginajt Gazeta.pl" <pashaginajt@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:16:27 +0200
Subject: Important information from Pashagina Olga.


*My name is Pashagina Olga. A family relative to Viktor Gerashchenko who is
a renowned Russian central banker and Mid-age economist. After his
resignation from the central bank in 2002, Viktor Gerashchenko joined the
Rodina party as a co-chairman and made it to the lower house of the federal
legislative assembly of Russia. He secretly supported Gennady Zyuganov run
as an opposition candidate in this year's Russia Presidential Election after
he was unjustifiably denied a ticket to contest. In view of this, the
incumbent government is planning to motivate the frustration of his
political career through instigating some bogus accusation on his
involvement in the Russian "Black Tuesday" of October 1994 and his
activities while serving as a former chairman of the board in the defunct YUKOS
OIL. *

*Viktor Gerashchenko has instructed that I personally take charge of
disposing most of his assets and bank deposits valued at $625 Million United
states Dollars (which might serve as a means to tie him with the company's
former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky thereby motivating his arrest and possible
trial by the Russian Government) to a safe account. I have mapped out
strategies to carry out this task successfully within a reasonable time
frame.

YOUR ROLE:
I will present you / your company as one of the contractors/suppliers owed
by Mr. Gerashchenko's business subsidiaries so that you can stand as the
beneficiary of the above quoted sum or PART of the fund according to your
financial strength or that of your company ( this will be done in such a way
to evade any case of money laundering by making the transfers in bits ). All
money transfer charges and taxes will be deducted from the fund as soon as
it arrives your account. I will arrange for proper modalities to be used to
transfer this fund to you from different accounts domiciled in the US and
the UK. I have planned to have you transfer the funds to some other accounts
within the US and the UK which will not be linked to Mr. Gerashchenko's and
his conglomerates. The transaction is 100% risk free but
demands utmost confidentiality and trust. You will be rewarded with 20% of
the total sum you can accommodate for transit.

I urge you to contact me immediately for proper identification of myself
with further details if you are satisfied with my proposition and feel you
are in a position to assist me bearing in mind the confidential nature of
this transaction.
(Sorry for my bad English)

Thank You
Sincerely,
Pashagina Olga Mrs.*

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