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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: "Baloga Martin" <maxwelleugene52@gmail.com>
Date:
Subject:


Greetings ,

I am barrister Baloga Martin. who contacted you for a business transaction some time ago but something led to another and we could not achieve our aim of transferring the money to your Bank account as planned. I'm happy to inform you that I have had the funds transferred with the cooperation of a new partner from INDIA. Presently, I'm in INDIA for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I have not forgotten your past efforts and attempted to assist me in transferring those funds despite the fact that it failed us somehow.

Now contact my secretary…….

His name is Mrs. Maria Bagel
E-mail: redacted@domain.name

Ask him to send you an ATM VISA CARD of US$2,700,000.00 American DOLLARS
which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in
this matter. I appreciate your collective efforts at that time, so feel free and get in touch with my secretary and instruct him where and how to send the amount 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. At moment, I am very busy here in INDIA because of the investment projects which I and the new partner are having at hand without confrontations. As a serious
minded and straight-forward person, I instructed my secretary to make sure he carries out the assignment of sending you the money as instructed. So feel free to get in touch with him and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

With Best Regards,
Baloga Martin.


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