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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 Lowise mogan <mr_lowisemogan02@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mr Lowise mogan <mr_lowisemogan@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:49:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: My Dear ,



My Dear ,
 
I am Mr Lowise Mogan, Director Accounts and Audits unit, with Ecobank here in COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC . I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.Every 12 years All Ecobank branches  Transfer to its treasury account with central bank millions of dollars as unclaimed  Depositors Fundfrom unservisable in compliance with the government Banking Laws,regulations it normally runs into several millions of dollars.
 
Until Mr.Hosam El Din Ghafar Ahmed, death, along with his 3 sons including Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed the next of kin(in an Egypt-Air Flight 990 plane crash on a festive visit from loss
angels.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml I was his Foreign Currency Denoted Bank Account Manager with constant balance i excess of eight digits. Ever since his death and up till this time no next of kin or relation of his has come forward to claim his
money with us.
 
However, with me being the direct Auditing and Accounting Unit in the Foreign Remittance Department of this bank. I have all the necessary information that you will presents to the bank as a next of kin or relation of late Mr.Hosam El Din Ghafar Ahmed,on private business deal basis.Now the game plan and the purpose of my writing you is that I want to pull out this unclaimed money amounting to €21,300,000.00 ( Twenty one Million, Three Hundred Thousand Euros) with your cooperation and assistant:Upon receipt of your response, I will send to you the text of Application you are required to forward to the Bank. For yourcooperation and efforts 40% of the money will be for you as my foreign partner, while 60% will be for me, I will eventually visit your country for disbursement of our portion.
 
Please, reply me immediately  for more directives, please for security purpose and to avoid any leakage, every communication should please be on this e-mail address (mr_lowisemogan01@yahoo.fr )
 
Please i need your assistance to achieve this great chance because i do not wish this money to be transferred to the government treasury accounts through Central bank of BENIN COTONOU REPUBLIC  as an unclamed bill.No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well thatthe account is a secret account.But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here in BENIN COTONOU REPUBLIC, but to a foreigner who has information about the account and which am ready to tell you because Iknow everything about this fund.

Regards,

Mr Lowise Mogan

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