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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: "Lt. Gen. Charles Evan Bouchard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lt.gen.charlesbouchardi@live.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:40:15 -0700
Subject: Your urgent respond is needed for (INVESTMENT)?

Dear Friend,
I am Lt. Gen. Charles Evan Bouchard, a NATO TROP to Libya crisis doing late president GADDAFI office, I got your contact from the professionals list Investment world wide, I want to invest in your Country, and I will want you to be in position to take care of my investment over there, 10.5 Million Euro will be invested in our business, if only you will be honest to me, then I will be very happy to accept you as my partner, if you wish to do this business with me kindly reply me back with this e-mail address (lt.gen.charlesbouchardi@live.com) right now I am very busy in my office but I will send my representative to come your country and meet with you for more meeting and discussion, and after that we sign agreement paper, and I will make arrangement and send the 10.5 Million Euro to you for the investment, and 20% of the investment income will go for your effort.
Your urgent respond is needed for (INVESTMENT)
Best Regards
Lt. Gen. Charles Evan Bouchard
 

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