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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: "abdulkarim aziz" <abdul_aziz445@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: abdul_aziz441@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:46:58 +0000
Subject: DEAR ABERCROMBIE.

ABDULKARIM AZIZ.
12,Kofi Anam Street,
Accra-Ghana.

Dear Aber,

I am Abdulkarim Aziz, the Personal Driver to late Mr. Roger Abercrombie ,a
foreigner, who used to work with Jange Chemical Development Company in Ghana
.On the 16th of February 1998, my Master,his wife and their two children
were involved in a plane crash in taiwan which involved the death of Mr.
Sheu Yuan-dong, governor of Taiwan's Central Bank, his wife and only
daughter with other four other finance officials returning from a conference
in Bali Died in a plane crash in Taiwan,Some
passengers on board died of which my Master and his family was one of the
victim.Here you can confirm from this website below.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my Master's
extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. 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 and property left
behind by 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 US$13 milion dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin
or have the account confisicated ,since I have been unsuccesfull in locating
the the relatives for over 5 years now I seek your conscent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased since your a foreigner and
the same so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$13 million can be
paid to you and then you and me can share the money. 40% to me and 55% to
you,while 5% should be for expenses incured or tax as
your government may require. I have to work on the necessary legal documents
that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this dealt through.I guarantee that
this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law. I await your urgent response.

Best regards,

ABDULKARIM AZIZ

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