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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: "JONES KAYODE" <kayojones@netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:48:23 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS TRANSACTION


Dear sir/madam.

l know you will be very surprise to receive this letter.lam the

first and the only son to late DOCTOR ALHAJI KAYODE GARUBA.My name

is Jones KAYODE.My father was the former chaiman to Nigeria security

minting and printing victoria lsland Lagos.Unfortunately my

father was

assasinated by unknow assasin last month at ABUJA when he went

for a

seminal.

Before the death of my father there was a contract he did with a

foreign company in oversea which is $12.5millions u.s.dollars.He

deposited this

money with a security company in europe with my name because lam the

first and the only son.The consignment was registered as an

official documents so that the security company will not know the

content of the consignment.

Now l want to invest this money in europe after clearing the

consignment away from the security company.lam now in europe as a

refugee

.Any body that

can assist me to invest this money l will give out 20% of this

money and

5% will go for expenses

because the law of refugee does not allow me to handdle such

money.lnterested person should please email me immediately.Email

jonesgaruba@netscape.net

May the lord bless you.

Best regards.

MR JONES KAYODE





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