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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: kingstan2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:26:09 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20ASSISTANT?=

Dear Sir,

My name is Barr. Dan Hamed the confidential
secretary to former police boss in Nigeria Mr.Tafa
Balogun who was grossly indicted of financial
misappropriation.

The $500,000,000.00 U.S equivalent discovered in his
Fountain Merchant Bank account has been frozen by
(EFCC)economic financial crime commssion but there is
untraced $16,000,000.00 U.S in Ghana Bank, such he
asked me to handle with all available civility.

Please, if, it interest you to help out in this fact
in issue and have part of the fund better but if
otherwise, for Christ sake keep this information to
yourself.

All you need to do, if you care is to meet me in
Accra, Ghana within a short period.Thereafter, both of
us shall walk into one of the prime bank in Ghana,
open current account in your name where the fund would
be deposited for further disbursement or better mutual
investment.

More details after the receipt your positive response!

Barr. Dan Hamed
NB:barristerdan_hamed@gawab.com




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