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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: "henrywisdom1@excite.com" <henrywisdom1@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: How is life












HENRY WISDOM

Email-henrywisdom1@emailwave.com

BUSINESS PROPOSAL / CONFIDENTIALDear Amarjit Singh,May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you by an informal letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between you and us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of thenature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the responsibilities and functions of both parties and appropriate shares accordingly. But as a result of the urgency of this operation, I have decided to contact you byE-mail to hear from you first before planning on the next line of action My Name is Henry wisdom, I am a vault Manager with a security company here in EUROPE. And I got your contact through a friend of my in London. This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy will be successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before the beginning of the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of
a consignment was made here in our company by the late son of the former president of Iraq Saddam Huesein Mr, Qusai Hussein who was recently killed by the American Soldiers in Iraq.Ouasai Hussein made this deposit personally and no one in my office at this moment knows that this consignment belongs to him only me and my friend whois the Computer Lodgement officer in our company. We have tried to investigate the content of this box and found out that the consignment contains money and in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five Million dollars), deposited as Family Treasure. We have therefore decided to find a way to take away this consignment from our office and move the money out. We are willing to offer you 40% of the total sum. And 5% for investments in your country while the rest will be kept for us. Hence we are looking for a trustworthy person internationally who will come forward to claim this consignment. I have to make necessary arrangements for the change of
ownership of this consignment to anybody name who is willing to work with us within 10 working days of receipt of the information. All we need from you, is to change the consignment ownership on your name so that no one in our office will ever know what is going on and move the consignment away from here to any of our company affiliate to any other part of Europe where it will be easy for you to claim the items. If this proposal meets your interest please get back to me immediately in my alternative email Address (henrywisdom1@emailwave.com) by giving me your telephone numbers to enable me give to you further details on how we have planned to carry this operation smoothly. As soon as I receive your response, I will acquaint you with further details regarding the transaction your urgent response awaited.

Yours faithfullyMr Henry Wisdom

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