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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: "morgan patrick" <morganpat90@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: morgan313pat@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:17:46 +0100
Subject: REPLY BACK

Dear Partner,

I came across your e-mail address in the chambers of commerce and industries
and i felt that you can be of assistance to me.

I want to transfer out £15,000,000.00 (fifteen Million Pounds Sterling)
from our bank here, I have the courage to contact you for this important
transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am Dr.Morgan Patrick, the auditor and head of computing department of our
bank here in London,United Kingdom. There is an account opened in this bank
in 1995 and since my inception into office in 2001, nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files, I discovered that if
i do not remit this money out urgently, it will beforfeited for nothing.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to any local bank here in London, but can only be approved to any
foreign account because the money is pounds sterlings and the former owner
of the account was Eshed B Williams and he was a foreigner too.

Once am sure you are capable of assisting me out, i will give you more
details of this transaction.

Sincerely,
Dr.Morgan Patrick

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