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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: paul agyiri <paulagyiri76@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: paulagyiri75@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:06:57 -0800
Subject: With due respect,

With due respect,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, I know this message will sounds very strange to you, but I have no choice than to risk my life to choose a stranger like you I have never seen before. We leave in a global world today, and with the help of internet technology one can easily communicate with one another all around the world without knowing him or she in person, what matters will be the trust and the Information’s you got about the person. In this case we can understand our self and work like one family.

Please, I don’t want you to feel embrace by receiving such message from someone you have not seen before, but my dear, such is life some time in life things works in a way we never expected. I will go ahead by informing you that in my account department of the International Commercial bank (ICB) Burkina Faso I discovered an abandoned sum of Three Million Eight Hundred thousand Dollars US$3.8 Million Dollars only in an account that belongs to one of the foreign customer here in my bank that died in a plane crash many years ago that almost took the whole life of the passengers on board.

Right now as I am sending this message to you, my bank have been expecting any of his family member who will come for the claim of this fund, but since then all proved abortive. And that’s my reason of contacting you, because the bank authority here has plans to redeposit this fund into the treasury of the Central Government as unclaimed fund if nobody applies for it before the next bank audit which will begin here soon, but i know that the bank authority want to confiscate the funds for their personal use if nobody applies for it before the next bank audit, which i personally do not want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity for me and you.I need your total cooperation to execute this deal. You’re in good position to claim this fund because I will furnish you with the accurate information’s concerning the decease and the fund. You may decide to claim this fund by bank transfer as well as claiming it in case, that is to say
coming down here after you have applied to the bank as the next of kin to the deceased fund.

Please my dear I assure you that this transaction is 100% free risk, as long as you will follow my instructions and not to betray me at the end of this transaction, do not allow this great opportunity to skip away from us because of your ignorance when you receive this message. You will have 40% of the fund while 50% will be for me and 10% will be for any expenses that may occur during the time of transferring the fund into your bank account in your country.

Mr.Paul Agyiri
Auditing/Finance and Accounting Unit
International Commercial bank (ICB)

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