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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: Dago Usman <dgousmmnn029@msn.com>
Reply-To: <dago.usman@hotmail.fr>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:59:08 +0000
Subject: Important massage.




Dear Friend,

First of all i want you to
give this latter good understanding if you can guarantee me from your own side,
your trust, honesty, i will be able to work with you, i will appreciate if you
can come down yourself and see things for yourself before we can proceed and
this will make things more clearer for us.

I am Mr.Dago Usman, an
accountant with one of the bank here in (Ivory Coast) I am writing in respect of
a France Citizen ( Mr.Bouchout Geoffroy) been a customer here in our bank,dual
citizen of France , who died in a Plane crash on Monday 2ND September 1998 GMT
14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to Geneva.

Refer
to the website below for more details.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html


I wish to inform you that late Mr.Bouchout Geoffroy left the sum of
Eight million United States Dollars ($8million) here in our bank, I investigated
this out during our last auditing as chief accountant, that is why i solicit
your urgent assistance for this so that we should work together and get this
fund transfer into your safe account and invest with this money in a tangible
business there in your country.

Based on the code of conduct in our
work, we are not allowed to own or run a foreign account while still on service,
it was as a matter of this fact I decided to contact you so that you will stand
as the fund beneficiary after we may agreed to work together and ask the bank to
transfer this fund into your account.

So my good friend, I want you to
come and stand as the beneficiary to claim that money as a patina/beneficiary So
that this money will be transferred into your account and we will use this money
and invest in your country or we will share the money fifty fifty after
transferring it if you did not want both of us to have joint business. I have
all the formalities to legalize it on your name. Note that all the modalities
of this transfer are RISK FREE hence i am working with this bank.

Upon
your acceptance to assist me i will forward to you the legal procedures of how
to effect the transfer into your account ,looking forward to hearing from you
soonest.

Best regards.

Mr.Dago Usman.

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