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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: "Alexandre Ituri" <alexituri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:54:11 +0400
Subject: ***WE NEED ADVICE ON INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN YOUR COUNTRY***


Hello Sir/Madam.
I am writing to seek your help and advice on profitable investments in your country and to safe my family wealth from the hands of our bad Government. My name is Alexandre Ituri from Ituri community in The Democratic Republic of Congo. I am the only heir/son to a family who has birth rights to many lands that contain large deposit of Golds and other natural resources. Mining of Golds other Mineral Resources has been the only occupation of my family and we have realized huge amount of money as proceeds(sales income) from them.
We have the sum of $12.5 million(US Dollars) kept with a bank by my father before he was killed 8 months ago by Hutu rebels known as FDLR here in DR Congo. This money was made from sales of Gold and other Mineral Resources we dug from lands that belong to us. The Government of Congo is investigating the death of my father, if they find out that we have such amount of money, they will seize the money from us by claiming they need it for investigation. We know the people in Congo Government, they are all bad and dubious people, they have done that to many families before. We are looking for an established and trustworthy person to help us by moving the money out of the bank where it is kept before it is too late and also to help us invest it on a good business. The Rupublic of Congo is not conducive for living and for businesses to survive. We want to move the money out to be invested in a country where we can find good investment opportunities and conducive to live in. If you are capable and in position of handling this money, please write me back so that I can tell you more details, work out plans with you on how to move the money to a safe place and we reach agreements on what you will get for helping us.
Nevertheless, we also have gold nuggets for sale. We Presently have 130kg of 24 carat pure Gold nuggets for sale and we are capable of shipping 5kg monthly afterward.
Sincerely,
Alexandre Ituri.



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