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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: "Frank Mbeki" <a.bowcock@imperial.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mrfrankmbeki2@outlook.com
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:54:24 -0400
Subject: Hello there, can i trust you..


My dear my name is Mr Frank Mbeki am a south African am a director in a bank here in United Kingdom, our late customer left in my bank the sum of 6.8MILLION Great Britain Pounds in his account, unfortunately he died with his entire family including his next of kin in a ghastly car crash on norbury road here in central London and its been four years he passed and there is no trace to any relative of his to claim the money he left in his account, hence the policy here in United Kingdom is that after four years the money will be converted to the UK cofers. As it stands now i know what it takes to release this money to you as an inheritance for our mutual benefit, do get to me.

please do get to me immediately on my direct email: mrfrankmbeki2@outlook.com

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