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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: "Muma Gofureea" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mumagof@zoho.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:45:11 -0700
Subject: Can you handle this $8.5million? i await your urgent =response

Hello,

I have a proposition for you, this however is not mandatory nor will In any manner compel you to honor against your will.Let me start by introducing myself. I am Dr. Muma Gofureea presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the Banks here in Nigeria. During the course of our auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1996 and since 2015nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Neal Walker an American and a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost his life along with his wife in the plane crash on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation.
You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.
WEBSITE.http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm

1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust ?

The total amount involved is Thirty million British Pounds only [$8,500.000.00 usd] and we wish to transfer this money into safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner;

Absolute confidentiality is required from you.Besides,I will use my connection to get some documents to back up the fund so that the fund can not be question by any authority.
i await your urgent =response on email id. mumagofurea@yahoo.com
More information await you in my next response to your email message. also reach me on my telephone +234 9035925104

Treat as very urgent.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Muma Gofureea

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