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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: "John Francis" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnfrancisreal@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:37:12 -0600
Subject: Hello Sir/Ma

Dear Sir/Madan

My Name is Mr.John Francis,a professional banker and the financial consultants to Omar Bongo,late president of republic of Gabon,who died 8Th of June,2009 in Barcelona,Spain.

Before his death he amassed a fortune,including 66 private bank account and more than 45 homes in the name of his immediate family.

Not only that, he made a lot of cash deposit in big security companies in Spain,France Belgium and Holland.

There is a cash deposit of 12.5 million US Dollars he made in a security company in a coded formula,only his wife and i who know about it,even the security company do not know that it was money rather the depositary manifest stated that it is family treasure made up of old Pisces of gold and diamond.

Now as his financial consultants,who has good knowledge of the deposit and perfect bank cont ants in Spain,the wife has mandated me to seek for a reliable,trust worth person whom we shall be using to make the claim of the 65 million US Dollars from the security company and pay it into his account.

There is no risk because all the logistics for a smooth transaction has been perfected by us and moreover all the necessary documents will be changed in your name.

They have agreed to to offer you 30%,while 60% will be for them and 10% for me and the bank official where we will open account in your name.

Please this is highly confidential and you must keep it to yourself only.

If you are intersted to partner with us ,do contact me on my private Email Address (johnfrancisreal@aim.com) with your full names address and telephone.

Best Regards,
John Francis

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