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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: Dr Woods OrvieDe <WoodsOrvieDe@wbc.com>
Reply-To: "drwoods_orviedean@live.com" <drwoods_orviedean@live.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 19:44:56 -0500
Subject: HELLO MY DEAR FRIEND


DEAR FRIEND Although you might be apprehensive about my email as we have never met before. I am Dr. Woods Orvie Dean, a Diplomat with the UNITED NATIONS USA. During one of our summit in EGYPT last week to be precise i met the defense general who discuss a good offer with me, he is due to retire in next 16 months and he has 31.8 million euros in a secret account which he wants to depend on for his after retirement life in Business the EUROPE seeking asylum in preferably "Turkey". WHICH I OFFERED TO HELP HIM GRACEFULLY AFTER BEING OFFERED THE SUM OF 2.4MILLION EURO FOR MY HELP, IMMEDIATELY I GOT THE FUND OUT OF EGYPT ON FRIDAY 4-2-2011. MEANWHILE, I WAS ABLE TO GET THE FUND OUT OF EGYPT, through my diplomat immunity means and was able to deposit this fund in a Federal Security Vault, Ghana and now the fund is readily available to be transferred to ANY EU COUNTRY BUT PREFERABLY Turkey FOR KEEP / INVESTMENT. However, i wont be able to keep this fund in my possession for a long time due to my status with the United Nations so this is where i need your assistance to claim this fund and please keep this fund with you as the sole beneficiary to this said fund.i have decided to contact you after series of findings with the chambers of commerce where i found your profile through my good friend at the chamber of commerce so this is a well organized offer. please this offer i have for you is what i consider as a lifetime offer already i have being paid the sum of 2.4 million euro for getting the money from EGYPT to GHANA LAST WEEK AND GOT PAID WITHIN 12 HRS OF CONFIRMATION AT THE FEDERAL SECURITY VAULT so this is good for us to deal with , and for your partnership you will get 15% for your effort and 5 % for any fund spent BY YOU during the course OF getting this fund to TURKEY where you have to keep this fund with you. Your interested is now requested for this transaction is needed for the completion so please kindly notify me if you are interested.! ATTACHED TO THIS LETTER IS MY CITIZENSHIP PASSPORT FOR YOUR VERIFICATION PLEASE REPLY ASAP DR WOODS

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