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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: "Dr Mark Duru" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <markduru222@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:45:17 +0100
Subject: THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I WILL CONTACT YOU ABOUT YOUR MONEY

THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
FEDRRAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
ASKORO FCT ABUJA
 
THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I WILL CONTACT YOU ABOUT YOUR MONEY.
 
We hereby inform you that the Scotland Yard Police, Interpol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI) United States of America, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria and all the African Crime fighter leaders have come together to stop scam/internet fraud in Nigeria and all round Africa. We have recovered over US$8 Billion Dollars from the people we have behind bars.
 
Our duty is to make sure we stop internet scam and money laundering. As for today we have put a lot of fraudsters in jail. We go all over Africa to pick this thieves/internet rats. We have over 7000 of them in our jails round Africa and we are still looking for more. We are aware that a lot of foreigners out there have been deceived and lost their hard earn money to these fraudsters after promising them percentages in their letters/e-mails for their impending help to move funds out Africa including fake lottery winning, inherittance, quota preparation, contract sum /NNPC,
Atm Beneficary card notification and at the end of the day, they will collect thousands of dollars from you without a successful end.
 
Please, watch the video links below as some of these fraud-stars were arrested here in Nigeria:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMgGdaGOJM
 
It was agreed that to retain the good image of Nigeria and the rest of African countries, all the victims who lost his/her hard earn money to these faceless thieves will be compensated with some amount of money This we assume will help you to start a new life. Please, you have to reply immediately if you are a such scam victimes with every of datas,such as your full name, your contact address and country, phone number, occupation
and age.
 
Regard
Mark Duru
 

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