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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: Anthony George <tony10@personal.ro>
Reply-To: tony_gnng@123mail.cl
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:08:38 +0300
Subject: Transaction (Urgent)












Replyto: tony_gnng@123mail.cl

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. ANTHONY GEORGE, the manager credit and foreign bills of
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB]. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer
of my bank with account number14-255-2004/utb/t who perished in a plane crash
[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers and his name was
Burke Sean.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with
keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one
has come to claim his funds of usd.26m, [Twenty Six million united states
dollars] which has been with my branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the
next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking
ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than five years, because
money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period.
In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after realizing
that your name and country is similar to the deceased.

I will give you (US$5M) million United States dollars of the total.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will give you details on how to execute
the
transfer.

I will give you the detailed information on how to actualise the transaction
and the next
step to take when I hear from you. I will not fail to bring to your notice
that this business is
hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for
fund transfer can be finalized within seven banking days, after you apply to
the bank as a relation to the deceased. So to assure you very well you can
go to http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/ when you receive
this letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail signifying your decision including your
private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.

SINCERLY YOURS,


Mr. ANTHONY GEORGE

















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