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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: Josephmozango Mozango <josephmozango11@ssummail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:20:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Joseph Mozango

>From Joseph Mozango
Dear Friend,
First of all based on what is going on all over the internet world, people find it very difficult to believe things like this any more but I think that is this situation has a place in the internet world, maybe one from 1000 has a real transaction. I am Joseph Mozango, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney/sole executor to the "WILL" of my late client Mr. Abdul R. Mushtaq,who worked as an independent oil Business magnate in my country before he died in a car crash with his immediate families on the 5th of Nov. 2004. Since the death of my client, I have written several letters to the embassy with an intention to locate any of his extended relatives who shall be beneficiary of his abandoned Fund and all such efforts have been to no avail.
I have contacted you to present you the bank where the funds are as the only surviving relative to my late client to enable us claim the funds before the government of my country confiscate the account as this funds have delayed in the bank suspense account and upon the completion of this deal,40% of the total sum will be for your involvement, 10% for miscellaneous expenses, 10% will go for charity work and the remaining 40% for me.
Please if you feel interested, I crave your indulgence to please get back to me for detail on how we will proceed and make this claim without delay , all I need is your assistance and support so that we can both carry out this project.
I will appreciate if you can send me the following information to me in your response to enable us commence this action
1.Your Full Names.
2.Your current Mobile telephone and fax numbers(for rapid
communications).
3.Your age.
4.Occupation.
5.Your Current address.
Upon my receipt of your mail coupled with the above information I will give you detail on the steps to take and get this done
Thanks and waiting to hear from you
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Mozango(Esq) .




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