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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: "Joharie Bin Janai" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johbinjanai@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:22:50 +0100
Subject: Lets Be Business Partners.

Hello Friend,
 
My pleasure writing to you this proposal, I am captain Joharie Bin Janai with the United Nations troop in Iraq, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision to transfer troops all over Europe this year, I have been deployed to come and work in your country's military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on the war against terrorism. I would love to invest in your country and that is why I contacted you.
 
On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of 12 Million dollars. Which I got as my share from the deal we made here during my service days in Iraq.
Under a diplomatic connection, the money was flown out of lraq to Ghana and was deposited to a financial security company over there in Ghana West Africa for safe keeping.
 
 
I deposited this money with MICRO FINANCE COMPANY in Accra Ghana informing them that i am making arrangement with my foreign partner who is going to receive the money on my behalf and as soon as i finalize the arrangement with my partner I will be sending to them an official application for the immediate withdrawal and transfer to my partner.
 
My main reason of contacting you is to seek for your assistance to help me receive and invest this money over there in your country because i will want to give my family a better future from now, If you accept to help me out of this project, I will furnish you with all the information that you may need about this transaction and 40% of this money will be given to you for assisting me get this dream realize and 60% will be for my investment while 10% will be set aside to reimburse any expenses we made during the process of realizing this dream.
I cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in Europe for about 3 years, so I need someone I could trust. If you accept, I will transfer the money to Europe where you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary.
 
 
I am an American and an intelligence officer for that so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic courier service .I just need your acceptance and all is done. Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured site where I can be sure that the person is real. I believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication facilities which are secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with and if there need for me to call you, then I will make out time and go out of the military network and call you.
 
If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further inquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message, if no response after 3 days I will then search for someone else. I wait for your contact details so we can go on. In less than 4 days the money should have been noted on your possession and I will come over for my money. I will give to you 40% of the sum and 60% is for me while you will deduct the money for the house from my share of the 60% and keep the rest for me because I will come immediately once you confirm the receipt of this money in your possession. I hope I am been fair on this deal.
Get back to me with your full information:
YOUR FULL NAME...........................................
YOUR FULL ADDRESS...................................................
YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER...........................................
Regards,
Joharie Bin Janai

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