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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: "Lt Col, Faizal Ajam Jawaheer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <asiasecuritiesfinance@inteligweb.com.br>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:14:16 +0700
Subject: From: Lt Col, Faizal Ajam Jawaheer

Dear Sir,
 
How are you doing? My name is Lt Col, Faizal Ajam Jawaheer, the chairman Mauritius National Drug Law Enforcent Agency, a governmental outfit established with U.S force for a complete commitment to the total fight against drug trafficking and money laundering in Mauritius. I am contacting you based on the need for a foreign associate in this business transaction.
 
 
In August 2008, exactly one years now, my men and I bursted and cracked down a notorious drug cartel , During the crack-down, the drug lord and his gangs put some strong resistance when they engaged my men and I in a open gun battle resulting to several loss of lives including that of the drug lord and 10 of his gang members and two of my men. In the process, we searched his mension and found huge kilograms of cocaine and Also to our shock and amazement, a sum of US$67Million Dollars cash was found in the safe in his private security room, we have declared all the kilograms of cocaine and sum of US$30Million Dollars to the government as the exhibit/ evidence and decided to keep the remaining money for ourselves pending when we will get a reliable partner whom we will trust to do business with.
 
I and my three men agreed to maintain sealed lips on the money as we saw this as once in a life time opportunity since our government most time stolen the money we recovered from this cartel, this remaining US$37Million Dollars have been keep in a hiding place because due to the nature of our job as a public servant, the government, press, monitor our bank account, so it is impossible for us to deposit the money in any bank here, or think of making bank to bank transfer, therefore, we have thought it wise to move and invest the money oversea under the care and management of a foreign associate whom we trust.
it is true that we have not meet each other before, we don’t know you before, but we believe that only trust and business move the globe around. It takes nothing to know one another, you can only know somebody by only approching the person, so we believe that only mutual gentlemanly understanding is what we need to champion this transaction to success,
The corruption in our government has made us to take this decision and we will appreciate it you keep this information to yourself.
 
For further communication and explanation on the modelities to champion this transaction to success, kindly send to me the followings.
 
your full name,
your email address
 
your telephone and mobile phone number
upon the receipt, a clear introduction of ourselves we will be made to you with some evidence of who i am and also open up communication with you on how to move this fund out from my country to a safest place you can receive this money on our behalf for future investiment,  do not entertain any fear as all the modalities to move this money out of our country is made waiting for conclusion.
 
I am waiting to hear from you,
 
Lt Col Faizal Ajam Jawaheer

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