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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 Alan Tito Cole <colealantito@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:50:46 -0800
Subject: Business Proposal

Dear One
I,m Alan Tito Cole is my pleasure to write you this mail if
you will be interested on the deal or not, I work with bank
of America here in the USA
There is one our customer whom I help to open an account with
our bank he deposit about $2 million since two years ago ,
since then nothing has been heard about this man , I have try
my best to see if I can locate this man but later find out the
man was shoot dead in a deadly attack on a supermarket
Dear this money is just lying here in a dormant account
without claim i,m the only person that know about this
account because I was the one who help the man to open the
account
Dear the reason I write you this mail if you will be interested
we put hands together and move this money out from the
bank here to your country and we share it 60/40 ?
Dear if you are interested in the deal do get back then I will
give you breakdown on what to do,
Mr Alan Tito Cole

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