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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: "Manuel Diamini" <web.office6@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: manueldiamini10@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:10:08 +0100
Subject: Please read and reply


- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -

How are you doing today? I am contacting you just to inform you about the transaction which I so much believed that you will welcome these Great opportunity.A friend mine whose late father was former deputy Finance Minister and Economic Planning in republic of Cote d?Ivoire during the regime of former president Laurent Gbagbo contacted me early hour today for this Good News which we can easily execute within one week.
This friend of mine made me to understand that before the civil war started in republic of Cote d?Ivoire, his late father already made a deposit of Fifty Million United State of American dollars only ($50,000,000.00) in a private Security Company in Japan for Safe Keeping and investment projects.Right now the family is ready to make use of the fund, in which they decided to send one of their trusted family members who was among the teams that accompany their late father during the time he made deposit to the Security Company in Japan to represent the family over there in Japan for claim and invest the fund into any lucrative venture anywhere in the world.According to the family representative who is currently in Japan, as he claimed the Trunk Box out from Security Company, before he realized that the money was defaced into Black Coded Form for security reasons, in which the family has applied for the chemical solution in Japan, but remains the ?Activate Solution Chemicals? which the chemist directed them to China where the chemical can be secured.What really motivated me to contact you into this deal because the family have the money to pay for the ?Activate Solution Chemicals? in China "Four Hundred and Sixty Thousand United State of American Dollars only" (US$460,000.00), but they cannot get any trusted one who will travel to China and pick up the Powder and deliver to Japan due to VISA problem, because Japan government has restricted their VISA to West African nationals, based on this problem the family contacted me for solution and assistant, in which I told them that I have an American business associate who can travel to China, because as American citizen he has every immunity to travel and Pick up the Solution Powder at same time deliver right into Japan because Europeans, Canadians and Americans are VISA free to Japan.
Meanwhile I stated my Terms and Condition to the family as follow:-
1. The family will arrange flight ticket for you in advance.
2. They will compensate us with 20% of the total amount of the money which is Fifty Million United State of American dollars only ($50,000,000.00), meaning both of us will share the US$10 Million 50/50.3. Before your departure to China, their family will send US$500.00 to you in advance for your Basic Travel Allowances (BTA) so that you can handle your hotel accommodation and feeding, upon your arrival in China their family representative over there in China will also give you another US$500.00 before handing over the luggage that contains the Chemicals, However, when you arrive in Japan before you Hand Over the luggage to their family representative in Japan, the representative will give you another US$1,000 for you to wait in your hotel room until the cleaning process complete within 48 hours, in which the cleaning company will move the entire fund into one of top bank in Japan so that you will come together with the family representative to open online foreign bank account as non-resident in Japan, at the same you will apply for Master Credit Card so that you can access your fund anywhere in the world.
Please kindly confirm your readiness to enable us proceed further.
Yours faithfully,
Manuel Diamini

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