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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 MADI <mrpaulmadiiim03@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrpaulmadi098@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 07:58:04 +0000
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.


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My Dearest Friend,

I am MR. PAUL MADI, The chief auditor in bank of Africa (boa) Burkina Faso
West African, One of our customers, with his entire family was among the
victims of plane crash and before his death, he has an account with us
valued at $27.2million us dollars(twenty-seven million two hundred thousand
us dollars) in our bank and according to the Burkina Faso law, at the
expiration of Ten years if nobody applies to claim the funds a grace of two
year also will be given before the money will revert to the ownership of
the Burkina Faso government.

My proposals is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next
of kin or distant cousin for us to claim this money, so that the fruits of
this old man’s labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt
government officials who will later use the money to sponsor war in Africa
and kill
innocent citizens in the search for political power.

As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your account,
you are entitle to 40% of the total money while 50% will be for me as the
moderator of this transaction and 10% will be mapped out for any
expenditure that may be incur during the course of this transaction. Please
note that there will be no problem as my bank has made all effort through
to reach for any of his relation but all was fruitless.

Please send the following:

1) Your full name.....2) Sex.....3) Age.....4) Country.....5) Passport or
photo.....6) Occupation.....
7) Personal Mobile number.....8) Personal fax number.....9) Home & office
address.....

Thanks.

MR. PAUL MADI. Please contact me here: mrpaulmadi098@hotmail.com

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