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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. EGO AMAKA" <antonino.vultaggvu5g@alice.it>
Reply-To: <mregoamaka11@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 16:10:24 +0100
Subject: Good Day

Dear Friend,

I Am MR. EGO AMAKA the Manager, Bills
And Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department in a Bank.
Actually, I have a very urgent &
confidential Business Proposition for
you & for our overall mutual
interest. On the 6th of March 2001, our
Customer, an American National,
late .Douglas .J. Stone, an Oil
Merchant / Contractor with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, deposited a
valued amount of US$32Million in my
branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarded
address but got no reply.

After a month we sent a reminder, &
finally we discovered from his
contract employers NNPC, that late
Douglas .J. Stone ,until his death
thirteen years ago in a ghastly
terrorist attack to American Airlines
Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts,
to Los Angele's, California,
crashed into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center (WTC) with 86
people on board. All occupants of the
Aero plane unfortunately lost their
lives. On further investigation, I
found out that he did not leave a WILL
and all attempts to trace his Next of
kin were fruitless. I therefore made
further investigation and discovered
that late.Douglas .J. Stone, did not
declare any Next of kin in all his
official documents.

This sum US$32Million is still floating
in the bank and the interest is
being rolled over with the principal
sum at the end of each year .No one
will come forward to claim it.
According to Nigerian Laws, at the
expiration of 17years, the money will
revert to the Ownership of the
Nigerian Government if nobody applies
to claim the funds.Consequently,my
proposal is that i will like you as a
foreigner to stand in as a Next of
kin of late Douglas .J. Stone.

This is simple. All I require is your
honest and co-operation to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that
this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.I
will want you to send to me on your
return email the f following
information for the transfer in your
favor.
1. Your full names as the Beneficiary
of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3. Your private phone and fax numbers

Let's consider that our ratio of
sharing will be as stated Thus;(1). I as
the Originator of the Fund will take
50% of the transferable Fund..(2).
You as the Manager of the Fund will
take 50% of the transferable Fund.Most
importantly, CONFIDENTIAL as what I saw
as the life wire to the success of
the transfer of this Fund must have to
be emulated between you and me.You
have to use this media to promise me
that you will not in any way expose
the content of this transaction to
anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues
and Co-Workers.

I will also want you to send your reply
to this
email(mregoamaka11@gmail.com
) as soon as you get this mail to enable us
discuss on the modalities and processes
for success of this transaction.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation
and understanding. I wait for your
kind

Urgent Response.....Good Day
MR. EGO AMAKA

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