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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: Bob&Erin <b_e0219@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:57:41 -0400
Subject: HELLO FROM MATAYOEMMA



HELLO,
Compliments of the day. How are you and your family I hope that God is fully in control? I believe that you will be surprise to receive this mail in the sense that you don’t know me till this moment. I am the wife of Ndoga Stephen from Zimbabwe, my husband was allegedly killed by government of President Mugabe for supporting the Movement for Democratic Change.
However, on the eve of my husband's death in April 5. 2002, he gave me the sum of US$20 million (TWENTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash to move to Lebanon, but immediately my husband died I moved the funds to security company through diplomatic courier service to Europe. The funds havebeen in the security company since April 5.2002. ecause of the restriction placed on me and my children by the government of President Robert Mugabe, I Simply cannot travel to secure this fund from the security company where this said amount was deposited.
Please as soon as you confirm to me by e-mail your readiness to assist me, I will send a copy of my Power of Attorney to the security company to authorizing them to release the funds to you. As soon as you have the funds in your custody, I will give you my account details in the Bahamas where you will transfer my funds to on my behalf. Please contact me immediately. You will be entitled to 30% of the totalsum involved for your assistance.
Please reply me through my alternative email:(matayoemma874@yahoo.co.uk)Yours sincerelyMrs. Matayo Emma,

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