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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "richard bada" <richard_bada@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:34:08 +0000
Subject: PERSONAL

ATTN; AMARJIT SINGH




Dear Amarjit,




How are you today? I know you must be very suprised to receive this mail.I
have to

write you due mainly to an obvious reason to assist you beleiving that at
the end, I

will benefit from you as well from my assistance.

My name is Mr.Richard Bada, I work with an organisation called Economic and

Financial crime control (EFCC) here in Nigeria, its primary objective is to
fight and

combat economic and financial crimes.

It is in view of the above that I am personally committed in writing you
because your

name is amongst those listed that has fallen victims to Nigeria Scams.I am
writing

you this secret mail to assist you if given the go ahead to do so.If you do
not desire my

assistance, let it remain with you as any exposure will affect my work as a
staff.

What I intend to do is to facilitate your case for a quick recovery of all
you have lost in

the hands of those evil people.For me to do so your assistance will be
highly required

by supplying evidences that will lead to the arrest of those that duped you
of your

hard earned money.

Let me not go too far until I hear from you and then I will give you the
modalities.

Expecting to hear from you.

Regards,

Richard Bada.

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