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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. Martin Smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <martin.smith097234@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:59:47 -0700
Subject: I HAVE A PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS PROPOSITION FOR YOU.

My name is Martin Smith I work with shoreline credit union here in the states; I am contacting you to know if you can make a deal with me, on my watch as a personal accountant to the account owner is an unclaimed funds of USD 6.700.000.00 only in our bank of one late Korean contractor.

Who supplied petroleum equipment to One Apache Energy, LLC. An oil & Gas corporation operating from United States of America. The payment has been processed and the cheque has been paid into his account but the Bank is finding it difficult to get in touch with him. The last we heard from him was when he made a supply to a company in Norway, and from our recent findings he died in Norway as a result of the Anders Behring Breivik shooting http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14257797

I have been giving a 21 days ultimatum by the head of accounting dept of our bank to reach to his family members which I did tried to get across to any of the family members all to no avail, So If you don’t mind the deal between you and I now if you don’t mind is, I will present you as the next of kin and send your information for legal approval documents to enable you claim these funds. Actually I don't have to involve myself officially in other for the board not to have an idea I contacted you for this, but I know what is required to get this funds released to you. Without taking much of your time, I will advise that you get in touch with me for more details. On my personal email: martin.smith097234@gmail.com

Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me kindly delete this e-mail from your computer and pretend you never got it is never a do or die affair.

Yours Truly
Mr. Martin Smith

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