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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: Karl Constantinos Musick <karlcm@karlcm.tk>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 09:41:28 -0700
Subject: Hello Dear

I know we have not met but I have a business offer that will make us over $9.2million legally, I currently
work with a new Social Networking website that will soon be introduced into European market and the
management has predicted that it will be able to generate over 500million user around the world within
1year of its existence because it will be incorporating Social Networking, News, Games on a different
version, Video sharing and Free Music downloads of all kinds and it’s expected to do better than facebook
and twitter due to its latest free voice/video calls/ sharing technology but the main reason why am
contacting you is that the management is intending to lunch the website with two different powerful news
that will shock the world and attract all kinds of users to the website. The website is still currently
under-constructions but the management is willing to invest lots of money to get the word out and they have
figure out that the best way is to lunch the website with the biggest news around the world since the
website will also be incorporating social news broadcasting in a way where people can share and post all
kinds of news around them freely. I have worked a little as auditor and I have the perfect news with
evidence to support it, it is precisely the kind of news the management wants but since I currently and still
work with them as the editor while the website is still going through construction stage, I will not be able to
sell my news to them directly.

That’s why I have decided to contact someone outside Ireland to make a deal with the person and that’s
why I have contacted you. It will be a simple business deal, the bottom line is that I have the biggest news
that will literally affect the biggest bank in the world with the evidence and I need someone outside Ireland
who can work with me and I will provide the news with the evidence to the person to contact the
management and once they have been able to confirm that the story is accurate with the evidence, they
will pay us the $9.2million and we can split it accordingly.

Please if you are interested in making some money with me, kindly get back to me on my email and I will
give you more details about the business deal and how to proceed.

Looking forward hearing from you.


Regards,
Karl Constantinos Musick

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