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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: johnonyi3@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:36:29 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear=20Friend=2E?=

Dear Friend.
How are you and your family? You may not understand why this mail came
to
you. But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email from
me
in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which we

never concluded.
I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Monaco
Presently i'm in Monaco for investment projects with my own share of the

total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and
attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it
failed us some how.
Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Mr Usman Yaro on his E-mail

Address (usman_yaro2007yahoo.fr) and ask him to send you the total of
($1.5millon dollar) which i kept for your compensation for all the past
efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that

time very much.
So feel free and get in touched with my secretary and instruct him
where to send the amount to you. Please do let me know immediately you
receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that

time.
In the moment,i'm very busy here because of the investment projects which
me
and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had
forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that
money, so feel free to get in touch with Usman , he will send the amount
to
you without any delay.
Regards,
John Onyi




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