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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: Norman <infor@post.sk>
Reply-To: "flynnflyn@yahoo.com.hk" <flynnflyn@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:09:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Greetings



Dear Friend,
I will like to introduce myself properly, my name is Major General Michael T.Flynn,the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence (CJ2), for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. I was among the troop that went for international rescue assignment in Iraq where we discovered some stash of money over USD$650M in Baghdad, you can check reference on this link; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2988455.stm,
Afterwards i personally found a stash with the sum of USD$19M which i instructed an agency of United Nations delivery unit to help move out of Iraq and safe deposited with a Finance Company. This amount has been deposited in a sundry account (open beneficiary) with the finance company since September 2003. I need your assistance in this regards as I can not do it by myself due to my present condition. If you are interested in this business proposal, Kindly get back for more details.
Major Gen. Michael T.Flynn,

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