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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: "Martinez Morris." <mmorris777@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:06:53 +0000
Subject: urgent

Plot 10, Muhammed Buhari Way,
Ikoyi-Lagos.
Phone:234-80-43448683.

Attention,

I am an Administrative Staff of Department Of Petroleum Resources and I
represent a group that is interested in engaging your service as for
investment and humanitarian purposes of a large volume of fund.

If this proposal is acceptable to you, please get back to me, so that we can
work out the procedure for the execution of this transaction.

Please reach me via my private e-mail address:mamorris2002@maktoob.com together
with your private telephone number for easy reach.

Sincerely Yours,

Martinez Morris.



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