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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: "Mr. Felix Amadi" <scanner@artplan.com.br>
Reply-To: <felixamadi92@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:49:20 -0600
Subject: My Dearest Friend,Your Urgent Reply.

My Dearest Friend,

How are you today?This is very urgent and trusted. I work in CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. I contacted you for simple and trusted business which will favor both of us. My name is Felix Amadi, I am the operations manager of one of the branches of central bank of Nigeria. This business will be taking care by me from our office and all I need from you is your trust and sincerity. I discovered dormant account of $12,500,000 USD (Twelve million, Five hundred thousand dollars only)the owner of this cash (Mr.Mark Philip Business man from USA) has been confirmed death since 8yrs ago and this is why it has been dormant for long.

I am going to resign from Bank in 10 months time and I need to transfer this money to you as the next of kin. I am going to activate this dormant account for you as soon as you contact the payment office of the Central Bank. All I need from you is to get account information or open new account where we are going to transfer this money from Central Bank of Nigeria to your country.

As soon as this transfer is done successfully and you confirm the money into your account. We are going to share it 60-40%.I will take 60% and give you 40% for the account information and also as the next of Kin. I am assuring you that, this transaction is going to work and I have the right to order for the transfer of the money from my Bank and the entire backup document is ready in the office and I have all the documents for this transfer. There will be no trace after this transfer and I am telling you that you are going to be happy for this transaction.

But please do not disappoint me after the bank transfer this money into your account because I am going to give you my own account number to transfer my own share. If you can do this business with me,Please we can only communicate via my email address for security purpose.(Contact me back with this email: felixamadi92@yahoo.com)

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Felix Amadi
Operations Manager
Central Bank Of Nigeria.
Private email: felixamadi92@yahoo.com

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