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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: AKIN EZE <akineze40@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:40:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: This Honorable contractor message will serve as a reminder to you concerning your outstanding contract claim.


Attn: Honorable contractor,

This message will serve as a reminder to you concerning your outstanding contract claim. We are preparing for the end of this payment report and therefore would want you to confirm if you are still ready for the transfer this year 2006.

We shall return all unclaimed moneys to the government treasury at the end of next month. I have an investor from United States who is going to give you some loan of $2,700 for the completion on the transaction by next week.

The money will be send to you by the investor from Canada to enable you pay for any charges/taxes that is holding your outstanding contract fund not to get to you since all this while.

The agreement between I and loan company is once you receive your contract fund that you are going to give them 10% out of your contract fund. Please if this is accepted by you please kindly let me know so that I will inform them to send the money to you, so that you can use it to pay for the cost of delivery and insurance ok. Please do get back to me as soon as possible ok

Best regards;
Akin Eze
NB/I TRIED TO CALL YOU BUT YOUR LINE WAS NOT GOING THROUGH

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