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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: paulka7 <paulka7@bol.com.br>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:05:38 -0200
Subject: Can I confide in you

Greeting,

I am contacting you to be my Partner in investment projects in our country under your management and control with the Sum USD 4, 500,000.00 - Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars which I inherited from my Late Father who was killed in a political crisis in Bouake- Cote d'Ivoire, while I continue my education which stopped due to the death of my father here in my country.

My inheritance fund that I want you to assist me to investment in your country was deposited by my late father in a security company in my country and conceal  the funds inside a trunk box and declare the content to the security company as Africa Artifacts, belonging to his Foreign Partner which must be delivered abroad. But he did not specify the particular country to the security company.  My father concealed the fund in  trunk box to avoid  the government of my country tracing it to our family name, therefore, i request that you have to discreet in this trans action until be achieve success and  I hope you understand.

But before my father’s death, he revealed to me that the real content of the trunk box was USD4.5M for a proposed investment in China with his Foreign Partner. But for the past four years after my father death, I have waited for the Chinese partner to contact me to no avail. I have tried all the contacts I found in my father’s file to no avail.

I decided to move on with my life and look for investor by myself. This is why I contacted you directly to assist me in claiming the trunk box as my late father business associate and as my investor that will invest my fund.

If you can invest these funds, receive the trunk box in your country as the beneficiary. Please get back to me with your personal details like your age, occupation, address and mobile telephone number. I will send you details of the funds and how we can process the transaction and compel the security company to delive r the trunk box to you.

You can use write me in your language if you are not comfortable with English, I believe that business speaks all language. I will use web translator to translate it.

I wait to hear from you

Paul.

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