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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: Raziki Moudila <raziki_moudila01@voila.fr>
Reply-To: raziki_moudila@voila.fr
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 02:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.



Dear Friend.
 
Greetings to you and your family, I am the manager
of bill and
exchange in THE BANK , i have a business of 5.5 Million United State
Dollars to
be transfer to your account for investment in your country , if you are
ready to
assist me get back to me, i will give you full details on how the fund
will be
transfer to you.
 

Be rest assure that everything will be handled
confidentially
because, this is a great opportunity we cannot afford to miss, as it
will
make our family profit alot.
 
It has been 10 years go, that most of the greedy
African
Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of
their
Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the
shores
of Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to
develop
the continent.
 
The Political advisers always inflated the amounts
before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert
part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much
was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being
closed after
transfer.
 
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the
politicians and
when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy
act,I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one
cared to
ask me because the money was too much for them to control
 

As I am sending this message to you, I was able to
divert five
point five Millions Dollars ($5.5M) to an escrow account belonging to no
one in
the bank.
 
Now the bank is very anxious to know who is the
real beneficiary of the funds because they have made a lot of profits
with the
funds. It has been more than Eight years now and most of the politicians
are no
longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas,as majority of them are
not in
power again, because their tenure has expired. The $5.5 Million Dollars
has been
lying in the bank as unclaimed fund.
 
I will soon retire from the bank and without wasting
time i
will like the fund to be release into your account.
 
So that i will come to your country for the sharing
of the
fund, The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .There is no
one that
is going to ask you an,y question about the funds because everything is
well
secured by me .
 
If you are interested in this transaction, do not
fail to
reply me back, but if you are not interested delete my message from your
box
ok.
 
Hoping to hear from you soon.
 

Yours Faithfully,
 
Mr Raziki Moudila.





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