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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: balogun ade <balogunade016@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 23:46:06 +0700
Subject: Please Reply

I am Major Gen. Balogun Ade, the Commander 2 Brigade of Mogadishu Barracks
Abuja-Nigeria.

I am the leader of the troop of soldiers sent by the Federal government to
fight the Insurgent BOKO HARAM Militant terrorists group in the
North-eastern part of Nigeria.

During one of our series of coordinated attacks in the a village in Borno
State based on intelligence gathering, we killed and arrested some of these
insurgents called BOKO HARAM, in further search of the camp we discovered a
huge sum of fund in their camp, we suspect is given to them by their
numerous sponsors for their heartless operations, now we secretly took this
fund and is already deposited in our local bank in Nigeria in the tune of
three Million and two hundred thousand united states dollars($USD3.2M)

Please i want you to know that this fund is only known to me and one of my
junior cadet in the military, so i want you to only present a bank account
where this fund could be transferred in your favor and all our dealings
must be very secret.

As soon as the fund is successfully transferred to you, i shall give you
30% of the total sum
of the fund, while my cadet and I will take 65% and 5% will be for any
expenses that may be incured in the cause of all the bank transactions and
transfer.

So i am waiting for your urgent reply to enable me give you more details.

Thank you.

Maj. Gen. Balogun Ade

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