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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: "MR.PAUL" <paulhry@voila.fr>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:45:32 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Hello,Good Day


 Hello,Good Day,Please sorry if I’m disturbing you but really I will be appreciative if you can take your time to read my (proposition) thoughtfully but before I proceed, I am MR PAUL HARRY AITHNARD and I operate with one of the largest bank in my country and I engaged the rank as the group head of   research/commodities in our bank, I also take charge of all commodities and cover the key institutional clients (Banks, Asset managers, Hedge funds) on investment strategies.Without delay, I'm writing this letter to you with good faith and strong desire to solicit your sincere co-operation in this transaction which would certainly boost the financial stand of both parties involved when successfully completed.
As a matter of fact,i want to use my position in my office to transfer the sum of seven million three hundred thousand Unite States of American Dollars(US$ 7,300.000.00 USD) overseas perhaps direct through any of your reliable bank account, although i don't know if you have a reliable bank account otherwise I would want you to quietly  open a new bank account or you can look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this (US$ 7,300.000.00 USD),even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you or whoever you are providing his/her bank account will remain honest to me till the end of this important transaction, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down.In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating funds of the above mentioned amount in account opened with the Bank  for years and since then; nobody has operated on this account again and for the time being, the rightful beneficiary to this dormant account was the foreigner, but unfortunately he died after a brief Illness in the year 2007 and no other person knows about this account or anything with reference to the bank account or the funds he deposited therein, and the account has no other beneficiary till date.So, I’m only contacting you in this view, based on the fact that you are also a foreigner because, the implicated money can only be approved to any foreigner who can present all the bank required documents that will provide evidence that he/she is the true next of kin/Beneficiary to the deceased person and by grace of God, I can guarantee to prove whatever bank require documents for you when necessary to enable the bank to approve and transfer the money direct through your bank account.
For that reason, if you are sure of your capability of handling this transaction with trust then, I shall make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this Money ($ 7,300.000.00 USD)direct to any of your secure and reliable bank account that you may nominate, but first of all we shall sign a binding agreement that nobody will betray each other and if in truth that you will not betray me when this money is successfully transferred to your bank account then you will have 40% out of the total money ($ 7,300.000.00 USD)but we must have a mutual contract agreement first that you will not betray me or run away with this ($ 7,300.000.00 USD)when it has finally transferred to your bank account, if you agree then I will give you more details and directive to get this money release/transfer to your bank account in less than 7 days.
In fact, I am revealing this big business opportunity to you with believe in God that you will never let me down, because you are the first and the only person that I have contacted for this business, as a result you can please reply without delay and indicate your sincere position, to enable me give you more details and process which has already mapped out for the hitch-free transfer of this money. Upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and Willing to meet up with my instructions then i will arrange all the necessary things relating to the smooth transfer of this ($ 7,300.000.00 USD) to any of your trustworthy foreign bank account, which you may provide for this purpose.
Meanwhile, if you are ready then you can even make urgent arrangement to visit me here in my country and I shall presenting you officially to the bank decision-making as the rightful  recipient of the money ($ 7,300.000.00 USD).Thanks and I await your response urgently.
Mr.Paul A. HarryMobile (+226)65668819http://www.ecobank.com

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