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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: "Chuks Den" <chuks106@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:35:20 +0000
Subject: RE



Dear "VICTIM-FULLNAME"

Thank you so much towards your kind and urgent responce towards this
proposal. I must firstly seek your kind interest as it is the head of all my
dealings with you requires, Talking about the transaction in which contacted
you for a mutual benefit, I believe you are a trustworthy man and i also
have this strong believe to invest and confide in you with all the details
and legal procedures of this noble transaction for a sucessful
accomplishment. In fact your courage mail has gone a long way to establish a
stronger confident in your ability to securely finalise this noble
transaction soonest as expected hence i will be feeding you up specifically
with the details, requirements and effective procedures to enhance a
sucessfully closure of this noble transaction.

you are welcomed and believe me you will never regret your involvement into
this deal nor regret ever knowing a man of genuine integrity like me, rather
this noble transaction will creat a great advantage of beneficial joint
family ventures within your family and mine for future endeavours.

Justifying this deal, i will appreciate if you will give me a call
immediately as soon as you read this email, as to enable us know each other
much better and also establish a good working relationship to the great
advantage of noble transaction, because unity and togetherness is the sucess
of every business involving parties. Therefore is very important we first
established a good working relationship for a scuessful accomplishment of
this noble claim from our bank without any delay or mistakes along the line.

Most importantly, study carefully the details and legal procedures required
for a sucessful archievement of this noble transaction... Hereon is the
sucessful procedures hence you will always abide to my specific
instructions:

Firstly you will have to get started by fowarding a text copy of an
application of claim form to our bank managment but before i will give you
the application, i will like to tell you on how we will get hold of this
very fund.

I have with me the whole documental proves that backs up this claim and also
do not worry yourself as regards to what ever question our bank management
might need from you which i know that i will lead to the approval of this
claim,i am here as your partner and insider who will be feeding you with
every information and procedures while you will have to be submitive to my
instructions.

We will get hold of this funds in the next few working days right from the
date of your tendered application to our Bank checking department
information desk.

Secondly immediately this Bank receives your tendered application of claim
in our Bank information desk on checking department/ Ad-hoc committee dept,
for verification of your claim within the probate offices and enforced
agents, they will furher process your tendered application of claim as your
claim status by involving all the administrative protocols in researching
and verifying your claim status together with deceased file here in our bank
management which i have secured duplicated copies of the deceased files in
my position for this regards to ensure a smooth and sucessful claim.

For further verification of your tendered application of claim, to proceed
with your claim document processing, accessment, recouncliaton and effecive
completion of the procedural paper works to equip the final certisfied rease
order and approval certificates unto you for an immediate transfer of the
inheritance unto you without much delay.

I will forward across to you the necessary application of claim and
procedural documents when the time comes as all is secured here in my
private file jacket for this reason. but before i will forward this
application of claim form to you, you will first have to declare your
sincere wllingness to contribute honestly with all the legal requirements
for an effective proceeds. Believe me this noble transaction will be
completed legally, and it is 100% risk free as all the actions and
procedural inheritance documents will be obtained from the right links to
enhance a sucessful completion.

I will like the both of us to have an oral discussion as regards to this
claim as you can reason with me that email communication is not okey for
this kind of transaction, i will be expecting your call on my direct
telephone number .

I will give you the text copy of application for you to fill and have it
sent to our Bank's management via FAX and EMAIL.

Expecting your call.

Hope to hear from you as soon as possible, and have a nice day.

Yours,

MR Chuks.

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