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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: "Investigation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stevehamzaa@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:39:47 -0400
Subject: DID YOU GET MY EMAIL?

Financial Investigational On Foreign Payments,
Unit A41, 50 Bank Street London E14 5NS,
London, United Kingdom.

My name is Mr. Steve Hamza from Financial Investigation on Foreign transfers/payments, this panel was constituted by WORLD BANK, IMF, C.B.N NIGERIA and other major banks from African Countries. GHANA, SOUTH AFRICA, E.T.C. To investigate illegal transfers, Payments to wrong accounts and to stop Fraud and Scam which is on high level from African Countries which has also INVOLVED our good country Great Britain and also hitting Americans now. With due respect, Great Britain-government is highly worried and out to bring justice to this issue.

>From all my investigations and deep researches, based on the authority/power given to me concerning foreign payments. I came to understand that in years back someone contacted you for this tranaction to fix your name as the legal beneficiary to enable you PROVIDE AN ACCOUNT that will receive the money by registering you as the legal beneficiary of the money which he promised to conclude the internal arrangement and also settle with the computer manager on Account/Record department that perfected the arrangement but DID NOT after your name has appeared on the payment computer/ record and files as the beneficiary of the fund due to his greed and misunderstanding which the truth was not made known to you till date. The computer manager on Account/Record department that perfected the arrangement originally also went and changed ALL the vital information from the Payment computer due to disagreement with the parson that contacted you into this transaction, which made it IMPOSSIBLE for you to receive the payment a

>From my investigatios I came to understand that you have suffered so much towards trying to receive the money but all efforts were to no success. Rather they keep demanding fees, ON and ON. From the information here, you were told that you will receive the payment through OFFSHORE PAYMENT CENTER by their agent which failed. They reversed it back with another story of paying you via Universal Immunity Diplomatic through consignment in (2 boxes) with assistance of so-called diplomat to be delivered to your house through diplomatic agent which their member will call you claiming to be at airport by requesting more money for Air port clearance E.T.C. There were so many attempts that failed such as paying through ATM MASTER CARD or even bank check which is Fraud. I WILL USE MY POSITION TO ENSURE THE INTERNAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE PERFECTED AND TO ENSURE YOU RECEIVE THE PART PAYMENT OF FIVE MILLION ($5.M) AS DIRECTED BY WORLD BANK, IMF, C.B.N TO ONLY CONFIRMED LEGAL/APPROVED BENEFICIARIES.


NOW IF YOU WANT US TO WORK TOGETHER HERE ARE MY CONDITIONS.
(I) You MUST promise me NOT to allow ANY OTHER PERSON knows about this and I will have 30% of the money then 70% for you because it is only two of us. (2) You MUST not betray me at last and my own share will be wired into the account which will provided or keep safe until we meet for sharing.

If you do not agree with my condition, I will advise you, NOT TO REPLY because there is no way you can conclude the transfer without perfecting the arrangement and normalize all the conflicts in your payment files. I only contacted you because your payment issue can be resolved and perfectd to join the legally approned ones. Lets make use this opportunity if you agree to follow my simple directions. REPLY ONLY ON (EMAIL: stevehamzaa1@gmail.com )

Yours in service
Mr. Steve Hamza

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