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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: genanthony2000 <genanthony2000@kaixo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:44:09 -0700
Subject: ANTHONY.


Dear friend,

I wish the best in life for you and your family, and I hope
you will receive this mail in good spirit and respond
quickly with ultmost secrecy and confidentiality,I got your
address through my professional relationship in discharging
of my duties
for my government.

My name is Gen. Anthony Johnson. and I was the chief of
security and operations for former president Charles Taylor
of Liberia.Please protect this mail for the safety of my
life and that of my family to avoid us being tortured or
killed by his left behind secret
agents.

Please I humbly beg you from the bottom of my heart to
listen very carefully,the situation in my country is very
critical and chaos, uproar and hostilities had brought the
country to its knees and from intelligent report the center
cannot hold anymore for former
president Charles Taylor and his government.

The intense pressure from united states, united nations,
international community and west African peace keeping
to[Ecomog] had made him former president
Charles Taylor to step aside and gone on exile and also
pressure to face war crime charges against humanity.

Listen very carefully, you know my country Liberia is very
rich with diamonds,and with my position as former chief of
security and operations I have accumulated so much diamonds
which I had sold to generate close to %

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