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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: murray.beverly@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:48:32 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Madam=20Beverly=20Murray?=

From Madam Beverly Murray


Hello,

My name is Madam Beverly Murray.I am deaf and dumb and I am a complete citizen
of the United State of America, widow to the late former minister of finance
in Philippine who was a victim of the terrorist attack against the United
State of America on the 11th September 2001 that crashed at the World Trade
Centre in New York .

I inherited a total sum of $10 million dollars from my late husband. this
money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security
and finance company at Ivory Coast under a secret arrangement as a family
treasure. This mean's that the security company does not know the content
of this box that was sent from the United State of America to Ivory Coast
under a diplomatic coverage.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you
and perhaps trustworthy to give this priority of shipping this box of money
to any address that you think is very secure and save in place with your
percentage of which we shall chat on soon. There is need for urgent action
because I'm paying $100 dollars per day as a demurrage to the security company
for keeping this consignment.

I give thank's immensely for the co-operation as I look forward to hear
from you soonest.Please you can contact me at murray05.beverly@laposte.net

Best Regard,

Madam Beverly Murray.





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