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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: "MR. KURESA MBA" <diplomatedwinmba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 04:37:54 -0700
Subject: From Mr. Taze

Dear friend,

My name is Mr. Taze Morris, I am the DISPATCH OFFICIAL of Waterfront
Security Company London UK. I am a Man of peace, I only
hope that we can assist each other. I only want to do this business
transaction with someone that i can trust, someone that will be fully devoted
and hand-in-hand run this business transaction together with me and
that is the main reason why i am contacting you.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as
the regional DISPATCH OFFICER of the Waterfront Security Company London
UK, it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the
capital city (USA) at the end of each year. On the course of the last year
2015 year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the DISPATCH
OFFICER that a customer who lodged a box of money worth the sum of
$6,800,000.00 (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars) is late
without no beneficiary to claim the fund that is in the consignment box
which he deposited with us, so ever since then, the consignment box have
been here without no one to claim it, which my head office is not aware
of it, and will never be aware of.

As a DISPATCH OFFICIAL of the Security Company I cannot directly be
connected to this consignment box of fund, so this informed me of
contacting you for us to work together in order for this money be
delivered/paid to you by my company as the owner of the fund, so that you can
receive this fund for us to SHARE. Meanwhile, you will have
45% of the total fund, while i will have 45%, while 10% will be used for
expenses. This consignment box will be delivered directly to your
home address, or it
can also be paid directly to your nominated bank account by cash in
whichever means you may prefer; all I need from you is for you to
stand claim as the beneficiary of this fund which was
lodged/deposited with our
company branch so that my Head office can order for the delivery to
your designated address
or fund remittance to your bank account immediately.

I have all the necessary pepers/documents that covers this
transaction, i also have the Money Deposit
Certificate which a copy of it was issued to the depositor the day
the deposit was made.


Please get back to me If you accept to work with me.As soon as I
receive your response i will then tell you in details how we can
attain/run this transaction so that the delivery/transaction will be
done without any single delay. Please contact
me on my private email: drtazemorris@yahoo.com

I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully, looking
forward to your response.


YOURS FAITHFULLY,
Mr. Taze Morris.
DISPATCH OFFICIAL

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