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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: "poualo gerre" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:53:09 -0400
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSITION FOR BOTH OF US

Good Day,

Firstly, I apologize for sending you this sensitive information via E-mail, please give me the honor to read this proposal, so that we can do this together for our immense mutual benefit.

In my banking department my partner and I discovered an abandoned sum of 13,000,000.00 EUR (Thirteen Million Euros Only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who unfortunately lost his life with his entire family on his way to the Airport of Bologna Italy.

Since we got information about their death, and found out that the supposed beneficiary of the funds is his daughter who unfortunate was involved in the accident, we decided to hide this from our directors because if they know about it, they will use it for their own selfish benefit.

Now we contacting you to come in as the beneficiary of the funds as we will carefully take care of all the underground work here in our bank,which is putting your information in all the files of the late client and making you the only bonofide legal beneficiary of the funds because we have access to all his files of the late client.

Details or our scope plan will be given to you after I receive your reply but know that all needed cooperation to make the claims will be given to you by us and we plan to take this transaction through legal means in as to make it 100% free from any questions from anyone during and after this transaction has been completed.

If you are interested kindly let us have the below information and I will give you more details.

1. Full name
2: Your private telephone and Fax numbers.
3. Occupations and Nationality.
4. Date of Birth
5, Present Location

We are offering 30% of the total sum to you as our partner.

We will discuss much in details when I receive your response.

This transaction is 100% risk free; get back to me if only you are interested.

Thanks and good luck to us.

Best regards,
Mr Poaulo Gerre.

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