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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: "Capt Phillip Maiga" <captainphilipmaiga@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:28:03 +0900 (KST)
Subject: Greetings Dear Friend,

Greetings Dear Friend,

From Captain Philip Maiga

Compliments of the season and happy new year, however, I have to introduce myself to you first, I'm Captain Philip Maiga  a member of the  group of soldiers that led a military offensive on the residence of Laurent Gbagbo in his bunker in the Ivory Coast civil uprising .


At the heat of this operation, we discovered in his bunker, four (04) boxes each containing a sum of ($ 50 million) million USD

My group will want you to play an important role by accepting us to transfer the boxes to you in your country since we know that you can use your company Position and give us the coverage that will keep the money safe and you are some one we can build confidence on and when the money is successfully transferred to you then we can be able to ask for retirement on health grounds and find our way to your country where we shall Invest and buy houses and live the rest of our lives.

My dear friend we urgently need your cooperation in this transfer as we have kept it long since the crises finished in 2011 and the former President Laurent Gbagbo is in the International court of justice in Hague awaiting trial

My group personally asked me to contact you since you are a commercial capability after reading though your profile in  your country business directory.

In order to make things simple as we Military men used to do My friend we are offering you 25% of the amount involved once you get the money in your Country
we believe in secrecy

Awaiting your comments

Captain Philip Maiga

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