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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: Steve Jimmy <xvi.fbi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:40:31 +0100
Subject: Waiting for your response!

Dear friend,

With due respect to your person, I decide to contact you as I believe you
will be of great assistance to me. Meanwhile, it's just my urgent need for
foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a
banker by profession from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and currently holding
the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank. I have the
opportunity of transferring the left over funds US$12.5M (Twelve
Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) of one of my bank
clients who died along with his entire family on 31 July 2000 in a plane
crash. You can confirm the genuineness of the deceased death by clicking on
this web site. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Hence,I am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared
between us in the ratio of 60/40. The transfer is risk free on both
sides.If you find this proposal acceptable,we shall require the following
details:

(1)Your full name
(2) Contact address
3) Occupation
(4) Age
(5)Your private telephone.

With the full assurance, this business will only take us (14) working days
to accomplish. Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as
we progress. Have a nice day. Expecting your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely
Steve.

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