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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: Richard Coulson <richconsult03@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:25:43 +0000
Subject: Are You Interested?


*Attention:*















*I work in a security company (name withheld) that handles legal and
illegal cash clearance across the continents. We have clients from all over
the world; Asia, Americas, Europe, Africa etc. Among services we offer
are: 1) Money transfer through cashless transfer debit cards which can be
remotely reloaded from any location 2) Hand Cash delivery by one of the
company’s transporter to anywhere in the world. 3) Anonymous bank wire and
clearance in any bank of the world with only a pre-designed number I can’t
reveal the name of the company now nor the location for obvious reasons. I
am in search of an investor. I decided to contact you, believing that by
the grace of Allah you will accept this and be my partner in business. I
have been working with this company for the past 15 years. Within this
period, I have watched with meticulous precision how heads of states and
government functionaries from all over the world have been using our
company to move huge sums of money in (US D) ($), Pound Sterling, French
Francs etc all in Cash to their foreign partners. They bring in these
consignments of money (cash) and secretly declare the contents as
jewelries; gold, diamond, precious stones, family treasure, documents etc.
in order to evade taxes accruing from normal bank transfer and to also
avoid declaring the source of fund from money laundering etc. These people
have hundreds of consignments deposited with our company. Their foreign
partner s, friends, and relatives, are claiming most of these
consignments. A lot of these deposits are lying here unclaimed for as much
as 15 years .Nobody may ever come for them because in most cases, the
documents of deposit are never available to any body except the depositors
and most of them are dead. Since the inception of the new millennium, our
company management changed the procedure of claims of consignments. As soon
as you are able to produce all the secret information as contained in the
secret file of any consignment, it will be released to you upon demand.
>From our records, about 300 consignments belonging to these people has been
claimed in the past six months. This is why I am soliciting for your
co-operation and assistance. I have finished every arrangement for you to
come and claim consignment, No. 1203 containing US$15,000,000.00 ( and
Consignment No.1209 containing US$17,000,000 (The owner of this consignment
is late) My duty is to supply you with all the information by email or Fax
then you will deal with the management directly. I will officially see to
it that the director of operations of our company releases these
consignments to you. They will demand for some information and secret
codes. I will supply you with every detailed information and you will fax
or email it to them. As soon as they confirm it to be correct they will
invite you for the collection. If you do not want to come to our office,
you can arrange with them to transfer the consignment to anywhere in the
world on agreement. Nobody will ever know I am involved in this deal in the
company. I suggest upon conclusion, we share 50-50 and after 3 more deals I
will resign from the company. I assure you that the business have been
hatched for 3 years now, it is very secure and risk free. I shall give you
my phone number as soon as you notify me your interest in this deal. This
is my opportunity to have a break through in life and so would want you to
keep this information confidential. If u can’t do this please delete this
email. The email is not for you. If you can do this please reply me with
the subject “YES”. Thanks for your time.Richard Coulson
<http://us.mc459.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Email..godwinpeter05@gmail.com>Email...
richconsult00@gmail.com
<richconsult00@gmail.com>*

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