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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: FEDIR DMYTRO <jmkl009s@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 21:43:05 -0400
Subject: Business Transaction Details



Hello,




My name is Mr. Fedir Dmytro I work with Mossack Fonseca Law Firm in Panama and am contacting you for a legal business transaction that will benefit you greatly. Over several years rich people have used the help of our law firm to hide their wealth from authorities for tax related reasons and we are very good at hiding their money anonymously before the recent scandal came and ruin everything, am sure you must have heard of us from CNN or BBC.


We work with our client anonymously, they give us their fund to hide for them and we secure that fund into a Bond under a different name to ensure that the fund has know direct link to them in anyway but the recent scandal has ruin everything and clients has abandon their files because they fear that authorities will link it directly to them and charge them with Money Laundering and Tax Evasion. To also help our clients we have destroyed all the official records and files we have before authorities raided our offices.


Clients have abandoned their files and now their is clean tax free Billions of dollars out there waiting for anyone with enough details about the account to claim, 12years ago I helped a client secure $17.2Million into Bond under a different name matching both your first and last name and that is the main reason why I have contacted you, I want us to take full advantage of this opportunity to make good money from it, I have all the details relating to this account and how it can be cleared without any problem but since your name matched with the account I will need your assistant and in return am willing to offer you $7million USD if you agree to work with me.


If you are interested in working with me kindly email me directly on my personal email address at fd0097a@dr.com for more details on how we are going to proceed. This will be a risk free transaction and I intend to conclude this transaction within a week and I will need you to reply me as soon as possible to avoid delays.




Kind Regards,
FEDIR DMYTRO
Mossack Fonseca Law Firm
Panama
Email:fd0097a@dr.com





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