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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: Carlos Alejandro <officert@tim.it>
Reply-To: dgbox101@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:15:17 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE ASAP.

Hi,

My name is Carlos Alejandro; I am a business man from Columbia. Experience has
thought me in my line of business that “Truth begets Trust”. So I am going to
be truthful and I plead with you to treat what I am about to tell you with high
sense of confidentiality.

I am into various crude Oil businesses, I have been into this business for over
twenty years and I have made a lot of money, much more than I could never
imagine. I have 10 people working directly with me and over 200 people working
under various groups. I have my connections and chain of contacts both in USA,
Europe, Asia and Africa.

My problem right now is that most of my money is tied down here in Columbia due
to restrictions on movement of funds. I want to invest in USA, Europe and Asia
but I cannot do this on my own (to avoid security risk) so I need you to be a
front for me.

I have the sum of US$44,500,000.00 (FORTY FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN DOLLAR) in a “CODED” account with a bank in
Massachusetts USA. This money has been dormant with the bank for over two years
and I don’t want that to happen anymore. I want to put that money in good use,
I want to invest it in other business and you are the one who is going to do
that for me.

I will be closing down my cartel between now and two months time. I am done
with it and I will also be relocating to some quite island. I got no wife; my
wife died 15 years ago after giving birth to my second child. I got two lovely
children studying in Canada.

These are my offer to you should you be willing to handle this transaction for
me;

1. I will give you 15% from my initial deposit of US$44,500,000.00 with my bank
in USA
2. Upon investing my own part of the remaining fund, the profit that will
accrue from the investment will be shared 70% for me and 30% for you.
3. If after 2years and I see that you made progress in this business, I will
entrust you with a much bigger amount which I am currently shipping off to
Banks in Hong Kong, Japan and London.

I have done my business all this years without a single incidence with law
enforcement because carefulness and confidentiality has always guided my
actions.

I wait to hear from you soon.

Regards

Carlos Alejandro


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