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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. Marvin Jorhan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <marvjohan@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:00:02 +0200
Subject: Re: Buy Alluvial GOLD Offer

Hello Dear Friend,

Greetings & Compliments of the season.

How are you and your family? I hope you all are doing well.

I am here to solicit your involvement in a project which am about to disclose to you. I am Mr. Johan Marvin of Basic Finance SARL in Cotonou, Republic of Benin and I occupy the position of the Vault/Store keeper.

In 2011, one Mr. Hennaui Mustafa EL Hennawi of Egypt deposited 400 Kilograms of Alluvial Gold in vault of NICO DI GROUP SARL in Cotonou, Republic of Benin for safe keeping, at that time the Egyptians are on top level political crisis which made him to relocate his some of his properties out of Egypt, he confided in me how he lost his entire family in the hands of the rebellious Egyptians, at that time he wanted to go back to Egypt to recover more of his properties which unfortunately led to his death. I have several inquiries to an extent visited Egypt to find his only daughter Shahinaz or any other member of his family or any of his relations to inform them of the deposit Mr. Hennaui Mustafa EL Hennawi made with us, all to no avail ( HER DAUGHTER SHAHINAZ ALSO DEAD) and now NICO DI GROUP SARL wants to auction the AU Gold to avoid paying Government tax owing to the fact that we can't find anyone to claim it.

Mr. Hennaui Mustafa EL Hennawi made me signatory to the deposit of the AU Gold as he wanted me to locate his only child Shahinaz to inherit the property if anything eventually happened to him since she is dead am determined to get someone to claim the AU Gold because anyone I present to our NICO DI GROUP SARL now as the Beneficiary of the AU Gold that will be who our they shall release the Gold to.

In Plight of this I want you to to represent the Beneficiary of the AU Gold as an associate of Mr. Hennaui Mustafa EL Hennawi. I will get the documentation straightened and perfected to suit this plan. You have nothing to worry about because am in control and the entire operation is 100% risk free.

If you accept to do this business with me, I want you to send me the following;

Your Full Names...................................................
Address...............................................................
Mobile Number.....................................................
Tel. Number.........................................................
Occupation..........................................................
Nationality...........................................................
Age....................................................................
Sex....................................................................
Passport or any form of Identification.

Awaiting your anticipated positive response.

Mr. Johan Marvin
Basic Finance SARL
Cotonou, Republic of Benin

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