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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: vivian james <vivianlovejames@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:30:35 +0100
Subject: Attention for an up coming Conference,


Hello dear:

My dear.I am inviting you to participate in the forthcoming international
congress meeting on Human Trafficking and Problems of Youth Unemployment
and Global economic crisis eradication.The international congress meeting
will commence from 5th to 9th of November 2019,here in United States of
America and from 12th to 16th November 2019 in Africa.It is a great
privilege for us to invite you to this meeting.

The conference is been organize by the Youth Global Organizations, is free
and delegates are entitle to a free United States Visa arrangements by the
Organization committee, that including transportation, feeding and round
trip air tickets, delegates will only be responsible for his/her own hotel
accommodation.

This meeting will contain various discussions issue of political problems
in Africa.Including Child Abuse militants, Sexual violence against women's
& HIV/AIDS Treatment.The children being affected by war and how we can
build a platform of knowledge at an international level to find solutions
to Unemployment as it affects our society and globally.For more
information’s regarding the congress meeting, please contact the conference
secretary via email that is indicated below.

secretariat office via,
Email:[ youth_organization@aol.com ]

Note that The organization will process the Visa and flight tickets for all
the invited participants free who require entry Visa to the United States
and Dakar Senegal.Participants will only paid for their accommodation in
one of the chosen hotel in Dakar Senegal by the organization during the
other issues in Africans,

Once again we thank you for taking out your time in your busy scheduled to
attend this meeting with us.

Yours faithfully,
Vivian James,
National congress coordinator,
From USA,

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