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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: botchway patrick <dbway.patrick13@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:39:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: VERY URGENT

Attn ,

How are you doing, I guess everything is fine, including family and business.

There is a new and good development regarding the transfer. The management had a resolution for the disbursement of funds into various beneficiary's accounts and after a long deliberation, I informed them that you should also be one of the beneficiary of this very disbursement, so upon this development, the management has agreed with me to discuss the issues with you that some of the funds should be disbursement to your account.

In regards to this development, I am writing you to inform you that you can be one of the beneficiary of this fund. I would like you to know that this fund will be used as an investment fund, it should be used for trading for a minimum 13months, because the management would not want a situation whereby after this fund is transferred into your account, its purpose will not be achieved, as I had already informed them that you needed this fund as investment capital, so this fund should be used for investment purpose.

I want you to know its very compulsory to discuss with your account officer to know the maximum amount of money that your account can accommodate, this is not money laundry, so make sure that you work with your bank manager, because my firm will also contact all the parties involved including the governor of your apex bank to this effect.

Lastly, you have to know that upon the successful transfer of this fund into your account, you will be mandated to transfer 20% of the value that was transfer to your account back, this I will use for the settlement of the people who approved the transfer of the fund into your account as a mean of appreciation, and without that the fund will be call back because the deal is one way swift MT.760 and its can,t be transfer bit by bit.

Kindly do this asap, so that I can also start working on my part to get things started without delay.Thanks and looking forward to your prompt and positive response.

Yours truly,
Mr Patrick

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