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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: "Mr. George K. Ajayi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <georgekajay@globomail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:34:21 -0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY HIGHLY NEEDED.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. George Ajayi, an Accountant and presently the director of currency operations in our Apex bank. I decided to contact you for a business relationship which shall be of great mutual benefits to two of us. I searched and got your contact/profile which attracts and convinces me that you are a foreign partner I can trust to have a business relationship with.

Recently, there was order from my government for immediate change of faces and domination's of our local currency notes. This is to checkmate fake currencies injected into our economy by some group of Chinese and Lebanese business men. A deadline was given to all citizens to pay in all the cash with them into their commercial banks to enable the central bank release its equivalents to the concerned commercial banks with the new currency notes already in circulation. Probably due to high rate of illiteracy in my country, many local business men/women did not comply with government orders/directives until after the deadline when they brought their out the currency note bills in their possession.

Unfortunately, the money is no longer considered as our legal tender, so it is now wasteful and useless. But all the money now considered waste have been brought to apex bank by commercial banks for destruction by burning in accordance with government directives. But I have included the total wasted value in my statement of account to the presidency to be among cash recovered and changed to the new currency notes. The total value in cash is (Fifty Five million US dollars only) after changing it to US dollar Bills in the black (Parallel) market.

For obvious reasons, I cannot spend this money here or place it in any commercial bank in my country to avoid suspicion, notice or exposure to my authorities, so with my influence and contacts, I succeeded in moving the money to a destination that would be disclosed to you later. It is my friend who works with International Monetary Fund (IMF) that quickly assisted me in moving the money out of my country to enable me have enough time to seek a trusted foreign partner who will receive the money on my behalf for safe keeping and investment.

As I said earlier, I am contacting you on trust to help me receive this money over there. I want to invest it over there in any good business you may advise on. I have agreed to give you 30% of the total money as your commission for helping me receive the money and your are expected to advice on how/where to invest the money.

In-fact I have concluded arrangements to make delivery of this money to you as it is contained cash in a bank save trunk box within 48hours after receiving your positive response.

Of course, I do not expect you to discuss this matter with any body no matter who the person is to you. It is a 100% risk free as you can already understand. For confidential reasons, reply me through this private email address: georgekajay@globomail.com and I shall get back to you with more details on the logistics.

Thanks & Best Regards,

Mr. George Ajayi.

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