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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: "ADMINISTRATION ALIBABA AFRO FASHION AND ARTS" <admin@alibaba-ned.com>
Reply-To: admin@alibabagroup.com
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:42:28 +0000
Subject: CIAO !

Hello,
How are you doing. I am mailing you to bring you a proposal concerning my
company and i hope this finds you in good piece.My company deals in sales
and just recently in the exportation of African Arts and Fashion, we are
growing and expanding, we have branches and offices in 16 countries in
Africa and we just opened and outlet in Lanarkshire U.K. from where we make
our international correspondence.
The purpose of my mail today is to bring you a proposal that will mutually
benefit both our company and our representatives abroad which i would like
to propose to you as.
Currently we do not have representatives in Your country where our market
seems to have a promising growth, in the last 3 months we have recorded a 70
percent increase in sales and according to demands we are expecting 150
percent increase by the end of this year.
There is one of many few important factors causing setbacks to our
organisation to which we have been looking into possible ways of solution
and that is why i am contacting you today. Most of our customers would like
to pay with their cashiers check, Money order or wire transfer but our
organisations have serious problem accepting any these form of payments and
his is what has limited our sales and patronage to the statistics as given
above. It is estimated that we have a multiple of the recorded statistics if
we can accept such customers willing to have such payments as it is recorded
now that we have more demands than supply.
We are in desperate need of representatives in your country who will be able
to recieve cash on our behalf and will at the end of the week send
accumulated cash to our depository account in the United Kingdom. And this
is my proposal to you, i would like to offer you an opportunity to represent
us and you will be a beneficiary of a whooping sum as cash flows in.We have
two options depending on how you wish tobe paid.
1.You could earn monthly, for which we will be paying you a fixed sum of
20,000 USD or
2.You could be earning as cash comes in, that is you will have a percentage
from every money that comes in, we will pay you 5 percent of the total cash
you send into our account at the end of ever week or forthnight as you
choose to remit payment. for informational purpose we rake in between
15,000-140,000 weekly on the average provided our products and services get
to our customers according to schedule and this is expected to increase in
the next few months.
I would like to know if my proposal is accepted by you and if you would like
to take part so i could let you know how we are going to go about this and i
would tell you what to do.We
anticipate openning a branch in Your country come 2007, this could give you
an opportunity to be part of our expanding network if you will, as we
expand.Let me have your phone number, Full name and Contact Address if you
would like to be part of us and earn.
You can reply me through this email (bmartins64@yahoo.com)
I hope to hear from you soon.

Regards.




Ben.
ALIBABA.


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