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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. Ibrahima Gueye" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gueyemribrahima@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:06:13 -0000
Subject: to transfer (US$20,700,000) to your country for private investment.(dr)

Economic Community Of West African States;
ECOWAS Commission
Website: www.ecowas.int



Sir,



I am Ibrahima Gueye the Director of Finance Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission. I wish to seek your cooperation and assistance to move the total sum of Twenty Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States dollars to your country for private investment. I got your contact through our Free Trade Database internet portal in my search of a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner and I hope we can work closely together to explore lucrative areas of investment in your country.

I seek your cooperation because the Public Service Code of Conduct Bureau prohibits every officeholder from operating a private foreign bank account and that was what necessitated my request to partner with you and by virtue of my status in ECOWAS Commission; I would sincerely wish to establish an outstanding business partnership with you prior to my retirement from public service by mid 2015. On completion of the transfer of this fund to a safe bank account, you will be entitled to deduct 10% of the total fund to compensate your effort and 5% to cover all expense including tax, while the remaining 85% will be retained as my private investment capital.

We shall discuss details of this transaction as soon as I receive your acceptance to partner with me, is rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk-free and will be executed under legitimate arrangement against any breach of international law.


With warm regards,
Contact Email : gueyemribrahima@gmail.com

Mr. Ibrahima Gueye.

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