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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: samuelaka@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:33:54 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?OK?=



MY Dear

This may come to you as a surprise,I am Barrister
SAMUEL AKA a Solicitor at law. I am a personal Attorney
to Mr.Buch A. Albert, a national of your country, who use
to work with shell development company in Nigeria.On the
2nd of may 1999, my client with his wife And their three
children were involved in a car accident along Sagamu
Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately
lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries
to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, this has also proved successful After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his
family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I have
contacted you to assist in repartrating the money that
belong to my client before they get confisicated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits
were lodged Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had
an account valued at about $8 million dollars has issued me
a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confisicated within the next ten official working days.
since i have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives
for over 3 years now I seek your consent to present you as
the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same
country ,so that the proceeds
of this account valued at $8 million dollars can be paid
to you and then you and me can share the money. 55% to me
and 40% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as
your government may require, I have the Certificate of
deposit that can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal through I guarantee you that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch
with me by my email to enable us discuss further.

Please contact me only through this email
for security reason: samuelaka@zipmail.com.br
Best regards
BARRISTER SAMUEL AKA




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