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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: flora levex <floralevex@gmail.com>
Reply-To: flora levex <floraleveques01@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:17:23 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: FROM MRS FLORA


 Dear Friend, 

Thank you for your email. I hope this business would bring us into a mutual understanding and sincerity in  order to achieve our aim. However, I contacted you to do this deal with me because I know, I could not handle it  without the help of a foreign partner like you. I also plan to invest in your country. My name is Flora Leveques,I  worked with UBA group as internal auditor. UBA is a commercial bank to be precise. During one of our internal  audit  exercise , I came across a very dormant account  of a deceased customer who died in an air crash.  The  said account (money )has been there dormant  for over 20 years now without claims. Very soon the government  would have hold to it. Instead of that , I have decided to channel it  for my own use through your co operation.  I also plan to donate some part of the fund into charitable organization.    There is no risk involve!! I have done my own personal research about the customer and I found out really that  the man was involved in an air crash. Proof to  this  is available if you don’t mind ! The ideal is to present  you to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased. Although, I will have to use some of your information to  fix in the bank data base to reflect you as the original next of kin.Since he did not make available any next  of kin before he died Now,I want to transfer the fund to any of your account offshore, without anyone knowing  about it. I have all the details of the account and most especially the method to pull the money out without  you even showing yourself to the bank.!   This opportunity , would benefit the two of us , should you make up your mind to be part of it. I shall update  you more what to do from your end. I have carefully plan this and you don’t need to fear or worry. I will stop  here so far ,until I hear from you for more details and what I expect from you to move forward.  
Leveques.

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