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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.

Fraud email example:

From: John Bill <johnbillgift@india.com>
Reply-To: mrjohnkyle@zadarma.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:39:34 -0500
Subject: Hello Dear !!!

Hello Dear !!!
Your share of USD$1.5M my dear good Friend
How are you and your family, hope that every one is fine and healthy? What is the situation of life for now because we have not hard from you since and I do not know that condition of life for you at the moment? Please make sure that your family is well taken care off ok.
Well I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner.
Presently I am in india for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.If you contact him diligently the entire project would be complete within 7 working
days.
Now contact my bank account officer and ask him to send you the total of $1,500,000.00M usd (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) which I kept for your compensation with his bank International commercial bank of Ghana for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my bank account officer and he will send the amount of money to you.
BELOW IS MY BANK ACCOUNT OFFICER COMPLETE INFORMATIONS:
CONTACT PERSON: Rev Fr. John kyle...
EMAIL: mrjohnkyle@zadarma.com
Furnish him with your informations like;
Your full name.---------
Your contact address.--------------
Your phone numbers- -------------
Mailing address---------------
Bank Account details for your money transfer
Send him your good bank details to send the money to you by swift wire bank transfer.
Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with the good gentleman.
I remain Yours Sincerely,
Mr. John Bill.

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