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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: Franck Nicolas <franck.nicolas001@gmail.com>
Reply-To: franck.nicolas10@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 23:43:11 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Your fund has been Approved




Dear friend, new development of delivery cash payment,  How are you today, I hope fine I am Mr. Franck Nicolas fromBOA BANK OF AFRICA in Burkina Faso Ouagadougou please I want to usethis medium to inform you about the new development in our bank now,there was an on-going board of director's meeting head thismorning and is about your inheritance abandon fund's left in west Africa.which you abandon here since without coming for the claim due to, you failed tocompleted the obligation giving from top bank official authoritiesby you. Meanwhile the bank remittance final say department paymentofficer Rev Cyprian Mark has agreed with others banker’s accountantmanager to send our diplomat to your country to deliver the sum of $6.5MillionUnited state dollars to you. All they needed to know from you if you arestill interested to welcome the high profile diplomat as being instructed tohand over your consignment trunk box via your doorsteps The
bank management, director have paid for vital necessary required document from our country government also your countrygovernment, such as DRUG AND ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE to proved thatthis fund is not DRUG OR TERRORIST MONEY because they most ask you for somedocuments like this.    Note; the only money you will pay upon the arrival of thedelivery is AIRWAY BILL and you will pay him before he will release theconsignment to you. Note: that the diplomat we will send to your country tomeet you face to face Does Not Know the Original Contents of the Box, Bankmade him to understand that the Box Contains a Sensitive Photographic FilmMaterial Instead Of Money for Security Reasons did you understand? I repeat once again, the consignment the total amount wehave to transfer is $6.5million US dollars so all you need to do is tore-confirm your information so that we can start the processimmediate to enable us give you date and time you will
expect from the Diplomatdelivery Agent okay. 1) YOUR FULL NAME
2) YOUR HOME ADDRESS
3) YOUR PRIVATE MOBILE TELEPHONE
4) YOUR IDENTITY CARD
5) YOUR COUNTRY NAME Best Regards
Mr. Franck Nicolas 

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