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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: Noriega Noriega <noriega1777@gmail.com>
Reply-To: gracielanoriega05@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:01:12 +0000
Subject: Dear friend.

Dear friend.

Greetings to you and your family, I am the manager of bill
and exchange in THE BANK, I have a business of 5.5 Million
United State Dollars to be transfer to your account for
investment in your country, if you are ready to assist me
get back to me, I will give you full details on how the
fund
will be transfer to you.

Be rest assured that everything will be handled
confidentially because, this is a great opportunity we
cannot afford to miss, as it will make our family profit a
lot.

It has been 7 years ago, that most of the greedy African
Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas
through
the help of their Political advisers.

Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores
of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to
have
been used to develop the continent.

The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the
opportunity
to divert part of the fund worth five million five hundred
united state dollars I told you about and I am aware that
there is no official trace of how much was transferred as
all the accounts used for such transfers of fund at that
particle time were closed after transfer.

I am the account officer to most of the politicians and
when
I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their
greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records
from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me for the
money
was too much for them to control, as I am sending this
message to you, I was able to divert five point five
Millions Dollars ($5.5M) which is in an escrow transit
account belonging to no one in the bank, and now my bank
is
very anxious to know the real beneficiary of the funds is
for they have made a lot of profits with the fund.

It has been seven years ago and most of the politicians
are
no longer in power again and they don't use our bank to
transfer funds overseas anymore since their tenure had
expired.

The $5.5 Million United State Dollars has been lying in
the
bank as unclaimed fund and I will soon retire from the
bank
immediately the fund is transfer into your account over
there.

Immediately the fund has been successfully transfer into
your account I will come to your country for the sharing
of
the fund, the fund will be shared 50% for me and 40% for
you, and the other 10% for the orphanages home and poor
with
less-privilege people.

Please know that there is no one that is going to question
you about the fund if you will comply with me and follow
my
instruction which will help us a lot to achieve this goal
for everything is well secured.

Please note that if you must get in touch with me then you
must reply me back through my private box (graciela.noriega05@gmail.com) and
please if you are not interested do not waste your time to
reply kindly delete my message from your box ok.

Waiting to hear from you soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Graciela

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