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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: feedback2@bauking.de
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 00:40:25 +0200
Subject: My friend Can We Do This?

Greetings ,


My name is Abednego Ahor. Am working with one of the commercial banks here in Nigeria. I have a business proposal for you. There is a politician who has three accounts in our branch and i happens to be his account officer. Recently he died while under-going investigation for corruption embezzlement. One of his account has if converted from Nigerian currency Naira to the  American Dollar, it will be Twenty Four Million Nine
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars $24.9m USD.

I need your personal details to replace this account information and perform the current Bank Verification Number (BVN) from the Central Bank Of Nigeria. After this is done i will have full asses to the account and will transfer the said amount into your provided foreign account and it will be shared 50/50 between us. The truth of the matter is that this will cost us some money to succeed as there are few relevant documents needed for the change of account information.

Therefore i want you and me to share the cost involved. With all honesty, humility and sincerity If you have agreed to work it out with me then respond immediately to my private email for further directives (abednegoahor@citromail.hu) AND my phone number is: (+234-7088063020)


Thanks

Abednego Ahor

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