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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: "Raymond Eze" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <raymondrandall21@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 08:05:17 +0100
Subject: Good day friend''

Dear Friend,

My Name is Mr Raymond Eze, I represent the interest of some wealthy politicians from African country, names withheld, who are interested in investing huge sum amount of $15.5 million dollars in your country’s economy, thus I make this contact with you to discuss the possibilities of a good profit yielding venture.

I am writing to seek your indulgence and assistance in transfering this fund into your country legally or through diplomatic means. I propose to make this transfer of the designated bank account of your choice in your country for investment.

My clients does not want to deal with the people they knew before nor have this investment done with those that have done things with them in the previous, thus they asked me to open a fresh contact with individuals/companies, capable of handling this transaction with me as regards to this.

If you interesting , please do contact me with the following informations below.....


FULL NAME .
COMPANY NAME.
CONTACT ADDRESS .
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
PHONE NUMBER .
OCCUPATION.
SEX.
MARITAL STATUS.

With this informations we can proceed to get this done as soon as possible.
Finally,You will have 30% of the total sum and 10% for any expenciesthat may occure during the the time of this transaction,why 60% will be for us here in africa.Please keep this secret

My regards to your family,Thanks and have a lovely day.
Raymond Eze.

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