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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: <mark8@markwilliams987.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <ericfrimpong07@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:41:16 +0530
Subject: URGENT AND EMERGENCY PROPOSAL!!!.

Hello Friend,

Please get the patient to read this mail as i explain in full. I am indeed glad to be in contact with you even though this medium of communication (internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine business transaction to correspond and exchange views without skepticism. My name is Mr. Eric Frimpong. I am the Operation Manager to a Treasury and Security Firm in West African since past 2 years. This Institution is affiliated to African Union Diplomatic Organization(AUDO). Since my promotion to this my office within this period, I have watched with meticulous practice on how African Heads of States and Government functionaries/Politicians have been using this Institution to move out huge sums of Fund(Cash)and mineral resources like Gold & Rough Diamonds to their foreign partners/Beneficiaries as CONSIGNMENTS.

They bring in these packaged trunk boxes as confidential family valuables and declares the contents as family treasures, Arts work/Antiquities documents etc while our Scan Analyses Report(SAR) shows evidence as Fund(cash), Jewelleries, Gold, Diamond. As you may have heard, General Sanni Abacha of Nigeria(Dead); Mobutu Sese-Seko of Zaire(Dead); Foday Sankoy of Sierra Leone; Charles Taylor of Liberia(Jailed); Babangida of Nigeria; Col.MUAMMAR GADDAFI of Libya(Dead) recently, and many others with many foreign contractors and personalities which their families does not know. All these people have Hundreds of consignments deposited with our Treasury and Security Institution. Their foreign partners (beneficiaries), friends and relatives are claiming most of these consignments. Many consignments are lying here unclaimed for as much as fifteen years and nobody may ever come for them because in most cases, the documents of deposits are never available to anybody except the depositors and most of them are dead.

Early this January 2014, African Union Diplomatic Organization (AUDO) changed the procedure of claims of consignments, it will be released to you upon demand. From our records, more than 120 consignments belonging to late Gen.Sani Abacha/Mobutu Sese-Seko/late Col. MUAMMAR GADDAFI, etc has been claimed within the past one year. This is why I am soliciting for your cooperation and partnership to claim two consignment Boxes belonging to late Mohammad Saed who was in charge of late Gaddafi secret armory, he died alongside his family during the Libyan Crisis. I have finalized every arrangement for you to come and claim consignments No.1200 containing US$50 Million Dollars and consignment No.1201 containing 200KG Gold. My duty is to supply you with all information and documents of deposit so that you can submit the claim to our office for approval.

The procedure is simple, you will apply officially to the director of operations of my Institution which i will give you full details for the release of consignment No.1200 and 1201.They will demand some documents and secret codes which I will send to you before time and I will supply you with every detailed information that you will send to them. As soon as they confirm it to be correct, they will invite you for the collection. If you do not want to come to Ghana, you can arrange with them to ship or deliver the consignments to your destination on agreement. Please Nobody should ever know I am involved in this deal. I suggest upon conclusion we share 50% to you and 50% to me. At the successful conclusion of this deal, and you will assist me to invest my share in your country. I assure you that this business have been hatched for years now, it is very secure and 100% risk free.
Email : ericfrimpong07@hotmail.com

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Eric Frimpong.

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