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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: Real File <realfile1@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: morgan_henry44@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:05:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: THE RELEASE OF YOUR LONG AWAITED CONTRACT FUND FROM AFRICA.


THE RELEASE OF YOUR LONG AWAITED CONTRACT FUND FROM AFRICA.
 
Dear Contractor,
 
Are you aware that your fund has been in African investment bank for the past one year now? We received a message from African Investment Bank that the beneficiary of the fund has not yet contacted the bank for the fund.
 
Listen, this bank has been waiting for you to contact them for your fund, is very important that you contact this bellow bank together with your ID card or international passport for proper identification and remember that after going through all the normal process, the total amount that will be transferred to your account by this bellow bank is $28,000,000.00 (Twenty Eight Million United State Dollars)
 
Contact the bellow bank also with your bank details where you will like your fund to be transferred, also your phone number is needed as wells as your bank phone number as this bank will call your bank also call you as soon as your fund is transferred to your account and the payment transfer slip will be forwarded to you.
 
Contact the bank with the bellow information:
 
Contact Person, MR. IYKE MOORE
Position: Director of foreign remittance.
Email:  africainvestmentbank@yahoo.fr
 
As soon as you receive this message, act fast and call the above person with the telephone number also write him message as directed to enable him commence work on your fund transfer immediately.
 
 
Get back to me as soon as you contacts the above bank for my record purposes,
 
Thanks,
 
Mr. Henry Morgan

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