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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: Jake Williams <williamsjake32@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jakemwilliams22@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:10:48 +0300
Subject: LET ME HEAR FROM YOU SOON.

OFFICE OF J. WILLIAMS.
DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, MONETARY FUND AND
ECO BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
ACCRA GHANA.

ATTN: BENEFICIALLY,

I am J. Williams, a senior staff with the Eco Bank fact finding &
special duties Office. I am writing you this letter based on the fact
that cool penny is better than millions of Dollars means it's better
for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. I
and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organization have
arranged with an officer in the Computer section the person of
Engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment
with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$1.5 million. Why we
did this is because according to information gathered from the bank's
security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive
this payment without success.

As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements
in respect of your pending payment. The problems you are having is
that of interest groups, A lot of people are interested in your
payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and
that explains why you receive different kinds of untru email messages
from different people everyday. Also we found out that some of the
officials of the prostates have been extorting a lot of money from you
with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you
this will keep happening if you countnue with those people.

Note: the said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box
weighing 25kg, In order to get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO)
Yesterday went to this four courier companies Dhl,Ems, FedEx and Ups
to make arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by courier,
but to no avail the above courier companies all made us to understand
that they
will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before
shipment. This is something we want to avoid because this box is been
padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the
pad before you will meet the button that you will press to open the
dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and be able to
close it again because it was padded with machine. We told the courier
services that the box contained film materials and when open will
spoil the materials. We did not declare money because courier does not
carry money.

Today a friend of mine who is a diplomat disclosed to me that there is
a security courier Service Company that is specialized in sending
diplomatic materials and information from one country to another,
which also has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as this cannot
be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have therefore met
with the protocal officer of the security courier service and
concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as
soon as I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who will be bring in
this consignment to you is an expert and has been in this line of work
for many years now, so we have noting to worry about. After all
arrangements we have concluded that you must donate some of this fund
to any charity organization of we will recommends to you as soon as
you receive your money.

To effect this, you will send to us your address where you will like
the box to be delivered to by the courier official.

1) Your full name, address...
2) Your Cell Phone..


I await your response.

regards
J. Williams.
Director, Special Duties.

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