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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.musa Kojo" <musa1kojo@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: "Mr.musa Kojo" <musaa1kojo@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:43:06 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Attention:

Attention:

In accordance to my religious persuasion, I felt expedient to write and inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched by the former auditor general of our Bank, with the foreigner involved to divert your claim fund to their designated bank account, From my position as a loyal clerk in this bank, I discovered that they moved your fund from Africa to Swiss account to enable them lodge the fund in their Swiss account.

I just found out through the Central computer data-base that they are about to re-route your fund to a Bank in United Kingdom(London) before European financial regulators traced the fund and informed the Benin financial regulators for verification, I felt that it is important for me to alert you on this development. They are still using your name which was approved by the government and the fund identification number as the beneficiary but they have changed the account co-ordinate and this is the reason they are frustrating you 1n the past by asking for endless fees in order to buy time pending when they will transfer your funds to their designated accounts, I have the reference number of the transaction with me. Your payment is supposed to go through direct to your account before the European financial regulators traced the fund and informed the Benin financial regulators who has involved since..

Please do reconfirm this because i do not need any gratification from you either in cash or kind. I can never be a part of this evil act because of my religion. Please respect my discretion in this matter, you can send an email to me so that I can give you the reference number and the name and contact information of the officials of the Benin financial regulatory commission involve now.

NOTE I repeat, please do not expose my person, it is not easy to get employment here in Africa in the bank,I cannot contend with these powerful individuals because they can eliminate me just like that.

God bless you

Alhaji Musa Kojo.

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