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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: "Mrs Joy Kevin" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joyKevin7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:53:44 +0200
Subject: From: Mrs. Joy Kevin

From: Mrs. Joy Kevin
Tel:  + 27765850 131
Email: joyKevin7@gmail.com
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
 
I am Mrs. Joy Kevin, Senior Auditor General; with South African Reserve Bank. I am getting in touch with you regarding a transfer of $90Million U.S Dollars registered to be transferred from a Libyan citizen account to a Russian Armed Dealing company. I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication.
During our first annual general auditing last month, I discovers this transfer transaction and call for the attention of the commercial bank director who confided in me that he was tipped to code the transfer to a personal account of a Steel Company owner who is a major share holder of an Armed dealing company in Russia. The bank director pleaded for me not to report about this transaction to the authority but the transfer put to a stop and money re-registered to a foreign U. S. Offshore account with no beneficiary name on it. The money is now on the banks escrow account and will be transferred to you as the beneficiary if you accept to work with us.
Before we come to this conclusion of transferring these funds to any reliable person in your country, we have invited the Libyan for interrogations and he pleaded for his freedom and immediately flees the country and South African region. While interviewing him, he confessed to be working for former Libyan leader MUAMMAR GADDAFI, so need his freedom to go out of trouble.
 
Why I am contacting you now is because this fund has limited months that it can stay on bank escrow account before it could be discover by other team of auditors and if that happens, these moneys will be forfeited to the state, and from my years as a banker, we see so much individual cash and funds being re-assigned daily to government due to their inability to complete transfer requirements, so if you can trust me to work with you in getting these money transferred into your designated bank account, I will gratefully make it work within few weeks because I hold the KEY to these funds and this is a lifetime opportunity for us.
What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to these funds, I am prepared to instruct the bank director to re-assign the fund to your name as the beneficiary and we pull the money in cash while you are here and transfer through different banks to your nominated bank accounts. The other option, you provides us with an account that can carry this amount and I will then hire a financial attorney  that will assistance us to obtain all necessary legal documents to back up the funds when transferring it, while I will personally supervise processes till final transfer is made to your nominated bank account.
If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. We are prepared to give you 40% of the total fund when final deposit has been made to your account and we go our separate ways. Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.
Please get back to me as soon as possible.
I await your response.
Mrs. Joy Kevin
 

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