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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: "stan khan" <stanislaus1000@voila.fr>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 23:51:35 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: LETTER FROM MR STANISLAUS,

 

My Dear,
  My name is Mr. STANISLAUS a citizen of USA.I was born on 29th may 1957.I was an American  businessman leaving in the westerner part of African precisely Abidjan. I was dealing in exportation of cocoa. I was on vacation with my whole family in Qinghai province china when the earthquake struck the province  and killed many people including my wife, my father, my mother and my two children on Wednesday,4 April 2010.Open the below web page now to understand. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8619109.stm.
Presently now, I am in a private specialist hospital   crippled and deaf. To my surprise  some days back  the doctor informed me that my survivals depends on divine intervention. Signifying  that I do not have much time left.
For this reason I am looking for a reliable and trust worthy person now that I have decided to hand over all my hard earned money which is under the custody of a firm, totaling nine Million United States Dollars ($9,000,000.00 USD) so that you will help me distribute $7 Million to earthquakes victims all over the world, while you keep $2 Million for yourself and family.
I have no other family or any relation to hand over the $9 million because that powerful earthquake that hit the Qinghai province , killed all my whole family including my wife, my father, my mother and my two children. That is the reason why i decided to hand over the $9Million to you so that you will help me distribute $7 Million to earthquakes victims all over the world. So my dear if you can be trust worthy, reliable and honest then do write me back so that I will know.
God be with you.
Regards,

M r Stanislaus 

  

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