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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Honerd Mark <mr.mensahcbbf@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hon.markz1960@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:36:54 +0000
Subject: Hello,

Hello,

This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to
ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please, consider
it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.

I work with a bank In West Africa, Togo Lome,
I have a business transaction for you. In my department we discovered
an abandoned sum of $10.5 Million US Dollars.(Ten Million five hundred
thousand United States Dollars) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his entire family in a
Bomb blast in Iraq Since his supposed next of kin died along side with
him at the Bomb blast, there is nobody to claim the left over balance
in the account.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department decided to seek your assistance and present you to the bank
as his Next of kin. If you accept i would give you the guide lines of
how we can achieve this transfer of the balance (10.5 Million Dollars)
to your account..and we will shear the money 50//50%.i will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% risk free that
you should not entertain any atom of fear as all the arrangements has
been made for the transfer. I expect that you will give me
your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication with you and for
more details.


Best Regards
Honerd Mark.

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