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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: "Mr Martin" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mpaul333ng@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:16:19 -0400
Subject: Good day Sir/Ma

My name Mr Matins, I write to seek for your kind audience i'm fronting for Arunma onyejiuwa Oteh Director general at securities and exchange commission for investment partnership in America, Canada, or Europe & Asia.Her inheritance assets value in millions of dollar to invest in international communities. Although part of the fund was confidentially manage in Gold bar in Ghana.$75.5 is in Dubai to invest outside United Emirate .

With due respect sir, if you are interested to partner with her in your country do not hesitate to contact me for details of this noble transaction so that we can discuss in detail about the investment plan or proceed immediately because i have started working on management agreement with the investor now.

Awaiting your affirmative urgent reply:mpaul333ng@gmail.com
Mr Martins

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