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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: "morephy williams" <morephywilliams@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 11:35:24 +0000
Subject: IN NEED OF YOUR HELP

ANNT: C E O,

Dear, SIR,MADAM

I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this
letter may come to you as a surprise.

I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as
chairman of the Contract Review/Audit Committee
scrutinizing all record covering executed contract
awarded by previous civlian government of Ivory coast.
My

colleagues and I have uncovered a floating amount of
USD$25,500,00.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS)wich is now in security company
in South Africa outside Ivory Coast
without a clear beneficiary
owing to a deliberate act of over invoicing and
inflating of contract value by some government
officials.

This money (USD$25.5m), has already been approved for
payment by the Ministry of Mines, Power and Steel and
is secure under Contract No: MMP/FGN/V1233/ALSCON-2/9,

Job Completion Certificate No: 677000000242MMPS/C, of
17th Oct 2002. As top civil servants we are not
authorized to operate foreign bank account and this is

why we want you to help us to transfer this
money outside Africa. We have accepted you as our

foreign partner and will now regularize the approvals
to you as the trust beneficiary of the contract sum.

As soon we receive your acceptance with your contact address,
we shall inform
you of the necessary requirement we will need from you to
facilitate transfer.

Let us use this opportunity and export the benefit of
this sum. We have resolved to give you 20% of the
total sum as compensation for your assistance, 70% is
for me and my partners here in Africa, 10% is set

aside to cover every expenses made in the course of
the transaction.

Note that this should be confidential.

Your urgent response strictly through the above
please contact me with this address

morephywilliams@hotmail.com

I am now in South Africa
Yours Faithfully,

MR MOREPHY WILLIAMS

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