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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Ednar Waziri <ednarwaziri01@aol.com>
Reply-To: ednarwaziri@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 16:44:23 +0000
Subject: I NEED JUST YOUR CO-OPERATION.

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Dear Friend,


MAY PEACE BE UNTO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.


Please this email is not a SPAM message, Your attention to this
message will change our life's believe me, And I NEED JUST YOUR
CO-OPERATION. How are you today? Well it is my pleasure contacting
you in this regard and I prayed that this will turned out to be an
ever lasting relationship for both of us. How ever it's just my urgent
need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
Transaction.


My name is Mr Ednar Waziri I am a banker by profession from
Burkina-Faso in West Africa and currently holding the post of Director
Auditing and Accounting Unit of the Bank, I have the opportunity of
transferring the left over fund (10.5 Million Us Dollars) Ten Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States of American Dollars of one of my
Bank clients who died along with his supposed next of kin on 11th
March 2004 at Madrid train attack.


There for I am inviting you for a business deal where the money will
be shared between both of us in the ratio of 60% / 30% while 10% will
be mapped out for any expenses that may occur in the process of the
business. If you are really interested in my proposal I'll forward to
you, further details of the Transfer as soon as I receive your reply.


JUST GET BACK TO ME FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS BUSINESS OK


Kind Regards.
Mr. Ednar Waziri.

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