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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.Wong." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wojo@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 02:21:45 -0600
Subject: .Greeting-s,

Greetings,

I am Mr. Wong. I am from Hong Kong, I have an obscured business suggestion for you with a value sum of 17,300,000.00 for our client who was with the Iraqi forces and also a businessman he made a fixed deposit as it stated above without any next of KIN. So the said fund is still lying in my bank as abandon fund and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration of 7years the fund will be confiscated as unclaimed fund if nobody applies for claim.

Now my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of KIN to our client fund so that my bank will release the fund in your favour as the relative and transfer it to your account for investments. Concerning the sharing of the money, I want to leave this area open to discussion between us.

Please contact me via my private box: wojo@yahoo.cn for more details to a way forward for business proposal.

Respectfully,
Mr. Wong,

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