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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: =?UTF-8?B?Ik1ycy5BZmF0aGlhIE1haG1vdWQi?= <atleticoyprogreso@speedy.com.ar>
Date:
Subject:

Dear Friend.

Greetings to you and your family, I am the manager of b= ill and exchange in THE BANK, I have a business of 5.5 Million United State= Dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your country, if = you are ready to assist me get back to me, I will give you full details on = how the fund will be transfer to you.

Be rest assured that everythin= g will be handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity we ca= nnot afford to miss, as it will make our family profit a lot. it has been 6= years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to la= under money overseas through the help of their Political advisers most of t= he funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and o= il money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent.
<= br>The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to fo= reign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the fund wo= rth fiva million five hundred united statedollars I told you about and I am= aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all t= he accounts used for such transfers of fund at that particle time were clos= ed after transfer.

I am the account officer to most of the politicia= ns and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy= act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and = no one cared to ask me for the money was too much for them to control, as I= am sending this message to you, I was able to divert five point five Milli= ons Dollars ($5.5M)which is in an escrow transit account belonging to no on= e in the bank, and now my bank is very anxious to know the real beneficiary= of the funds is for they have made a lot of profits with the fund.It has b= een more than five years ago and most of the politicians are no longer in p= ower again and they don't use our bank to transfer funds overseas anymore s= ince their tenure had expired.

The $5.5 Million United State Dollars= has been lying in the bank as unclaimed fund and I will soon retire from t= he bank immediately the fund is transfer into your account over there Immed= iately the fund has been successfully transfer into your account I will com= e to your
country for the sharing of the fund, the fund will be shared 5= 0% for me and 40% for you, and the other 10% for the orphanages home and po= or with less-privilege people.

Please know that there is no one that= is going to question you about the fund if you will comply with me and fol= low my instruction which will help us a lot to achieve this goal for everyt= hing is well secured.

Please indicate your interest in this transact= ion by replying back and if you are not interested do not waste your time t= o reply kindly delete my message from your box ok.Please contact me through= my private email address:afathiamahmoud7@gmail.com

Waiting to hear = from you soon.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Afathia Mahmoud

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