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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. beecher gram" <scoulibaly950@gmail.com>
Reply-To: beechergram@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:50:31 -0800
Subject: Mr. beecher gram

>From Mr. beecher gram
Telex and Credit Department.
Bank Of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
West Africa





Dear Friend Good Day.


I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business though
this medium (Internet) which is the fastest medium of communication.
However, this correspondence is private, and it should be treated in
strict confidence.



Firstly I will like to assure you that this transaction is 100% risk
and trouble free to both parties, In order to transfer out $10.5
Million United State Dollars , from our bank here, secondly the fund
for transfers of clean origin. The owner of the fund is late MR. KAIS
AL-HILALI Libyan Political Cartoonist famous, who was murdered
brutally during the war crisis by Libyan rebels.


I want to transfer left fund into your account as the foreign
beneficiary of the fund and I know that this letter will come to you
as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it
is real and a genuine business. I contact you believing that you will
not let me down once the fund goes into your account. More details of
this deal will be forwarded to you as soon as I hear from you
positively concerning this transaction.


I will come over to your Country as soon as the transfer is over to
receive my own share of the fund for further investments by your
advice. Please I want you to understand that the government of my
country want to take over all unclaimed funds please write back to
me immediately and tell me if you really want to carry out the
transaction with me, please delete this message if you are not
interested .


Looking forwards to hear from you soon. Please for your information
reply to this email

(mr beechergram@gmail.com)

Regards

Mr. beecher gram

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