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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: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?UmF0aGFuYWs=?=" <ttena@foxmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:51:48 +0800
Subject: Greetings to you:

My Dearest friend,

My name is Mr.Rathanak Chhey the Director of Audit and accounts section
and a manager to some individual accounts in a prevalent financial corporation here in south East Asia, due to my position i will need your co-operative assistance to surreptitiously move a certain fortune/funds of a certain deceased client with NO CLANS.

Due to the urgency i decided to e-mail you, my reason for contacting you is because I want you and i to benefit from this business proposal I tend to pick up with you if you can indicate your positive interest. 40% of the sum is yours for your help, NOTE; all process is completely risk free,please if possible drop your via email address so that I will detail you on the process when receiving your optimistic swift response.

Sincerely,
Rathanak.
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Nov. 1, 2002, 15:00 PST (FTW) -- The air crash deaths of Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter, three staff members and two pilots at approximately 10:25 a.m. on Oct. 25 in Eveleth, Minn. has given rise to the widespread belief -- shared by at least two members of the House of Representative. they crashed 2 miles from Eveleth Municipal Airport while attempting to land in freezing rain and light snow. Wellstone, along with his wife, daughter and 3 staff members killed while campaigning. Pilot error in flying the plane too slowly on the approach until it stalled. All 8 aboard killed.es who spoke on condition of anonymity -- that the crash was a murder. http://planecrashinfo.com/w20021025.html

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