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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. Mathew Mokoena" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mathew-mokoena@accountant.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 07:14:17 +0100
Subject: Urgent Response..


Dear Friend,

My names are Mr. Mathew Mokoena, I work as an accountant in one of the Major banks here in South Africa, I am an accountant to a foreign client who past away with his entire family in a Plane crash 2 years ago.

Considering the fact that my client died with his entire family including his next of kin, his funds US$ 28,500,000.00 is lying phallow and unclaimed here in the Bank.

As his personal accountant, I want to present you as his next of kin, and have these funds transferred to you. For your assistance, you will be compersated with 30% of the said funds.I also want to inform you that in the cause of this transaction, you might be required to come and sign out the fund release document in South Africa.

As soon as I read from you, further details(Name and Nationality of client, and crash date) will be provided to you as regards this transaction.Kindly email on (mathew-mokoena@accountant.com).

Regards

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