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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: Dr paul aku <ugobueze2014@gmail.com>
Reply-To: infooffice2026@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:26:18 +0100
Subject: Dr Paul Aku Principal Partner A&G Finance Ltd,Urgently Reply

--
Dear My Good Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred to a Swiss Account with the co-operation of a new partner
from Paraguay who is an international business man.

Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and
attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it
failed us some how. So I have given my Secretary instruction to send
your Debit Card/ATM which contains the sum of $15,Million Dollars.usd (15.Musd)
on your name which I have used as a compensation for your past effort.

Now contact my secretary with this contact is: Mr Roy Robert,

Email:royrobot2020@gmail.com

Ask him to send you the total $15M usd Debit Card/ATM
which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter.
I appreciated your efforts at that time very much.

So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr.Mr Roy Robert and
instruct him where to send the Debit Card/ATM to you. Please do let me
know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the
suffering at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of
the investment projects which I and my new partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on
your behalf to receive that Debit Card/ATM containing $15 Million Dollars, so
feel free to get in touch with Mr.Roy Robert and he will send the
Debit Card/ATM to
you without any delay.

Therefore, you should send him your full Name, Your ID if any--,
telephone number and contact address for his reference and make
further arrangement with
him on how you want to receive your Debit Card/ATM.

Best Regards.
Dr Ugo Bueze ,

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