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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: "Robert" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robertdenison2050@onet.pl>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 05:36:48 +0800
Subject: Re: businss opportunity....

I am Robert working with a bank here in the U.S.A and I want to make a long time investment through you.
sometime ago I helped some politicians to secretly move US$420,000,000.00 without anybody dictating it and I did it by just opening a secret portal system for the money to pass through without anybody knowing about it as they promised to give me 10% of the money which is over US$42,000,000.00.
now the deal is done, they have taken all their money without nobody knowing about it; leaving the balance of $42,000,000.00 which is my own share of the money. But it is risk for me to still keep the money here as my bank is expecting some external auditors in two weeks and I need to delete all the history of the transactions before their arrival.
but before I can delete them all, I will need to transfer this $42,000,000.00 out of here into a foreign account and that is where you come in.
All you need to do is to open an online account with a bank outside the U.S.A and within 12 hours I will credit the account with this money and it won't be traceable from here. the good side of it is that you are not going to spend any of your personal money during the transfer.
then after I transfer the money into the new online bank account you will open, you can from there transfer the money yourself bit by bit into your personal account. if you agree to do this with me, I am ready to give you 40% of the entire money and also invest the remaining 60% under your care because I am still working with the bank.
please I need you to reply immediately
Thanks
Robert
Email: robert.denison2050@onet.pl

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