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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: "kingdom nelson" <kingdom_nelson442@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:55:52 +0200
Subject: AN URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

FROM JUDITH AND DAVID,
democratic republic of congo west africa,
Dear Sir/Ma,
PLEASE REPLY VIA THIS EMAIL FOR EASY ACCESSING.
JACKSON_MOYO440@HOTMAIL.COM.
Please permit me to use this medium to explain my
problem
to you
But firstly, i will like to tell you who am so that
you will understand
and comprehend my point clearly because of the fraud
and scamm around
the world now which i have been very careful about not
to fall a victim
because this money is the only hope of our life and
living now.
My name is Judith Makoulou Ankoh and am here in SOUTH AFRICA with my
junior brother David and we are from Congo Democractic
but here in
SOUTH AFRICA we entered as a result of the war in my
country which
lead
to the death of my father and mother living me and
david alone on
earth.And here in SOUTH AFRICA we entered as
arefugee. Am still a
student
studying medicine and david engineering before the out
break of the
war.
am 24 years of age and david is 22.
Please we need your assitance and help and that is why
we
are writting you now. Before the death of my father,
he used my name to
deposit some money as his next of kin in a FINANCE
COMPANY CALLED
(CALLED ROYAL PLUS SERVICES SARL) and you can call to
verify here in SOUTH AFRICA THE TOTAL AMOUNT DEPOSITED HERE
FOR
US IS VALUED AT $29 MILLION DOLLARS. And am standing as
the
beneficiary but cannot lay claim because here they do
not allow
refugees to operate account in the bank here.Please
what i need from
you
is to
help as for the settlement of the clearance fee which
they charged and
you bring the following that will enable us to change
the  effect of
the beneficiary in your favour so that they can
transfer to your
account
once we change you as the person we authorise and
empower to help us
for the claim.
WE NEED THE FOLLOWING .
YOUR FULL NAME
YOUR ADDRESS
YOUR TELEPHONE AND MOBILE
YOUR ACCOUNT PARTICULARS WHERE YOU WANT THE FUND TO BE
TRANSFERRED.
ONCE WE RECEIVE ALL THIS AND YOUR TELEPHONE CALL
ASSURING US YOUR
READINESS AND WILLINGNESS TO HELP US CLEAR AND CLAIM
OUR MONEY AND
ASSURE US
ALSO OF HELPING US TO INVEST THE MONEY AND YOU ARE NOT
GOING TO BETRAY
US ONCE THE MONEY ARRIVE IN YOUR ACCOUNT. WE WILL
SUBMIT FOR THE CHANGE
OF THE BENEFICIARY
IN YOUR FAVOUR TO ENABLE THE FINANCE COMPANY TO
TRANSFER AS WE
AUTHORISE.
GOD BE WITH YOU AS WE AWAIT YOUR POSITIVE DECISION TO
HELP.
FROM JUDITH AND DAVID

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