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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: "John eze" <mike03m@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: Johnez1m@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:32:05 -0700
Subject: RE:


*Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr.John Eze, i work in the credit and accounts department of
African banking in co-operation,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of a
foreign customer with Domiciliary A/C number2590074169.His name is Mr Erick
Board.

He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during the
reign of late General Sani Abacha.

Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Mr Erick Board , who was an oil
merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and
accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this a/c as
next of kin to the late Mr Erick Board. He had only $28.5mllion in his a/c
and the a/c is coded.It is only an insider that could produce the code or
password of the deposit particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed
information other than my very self considering my position in the bank.
Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your co-operation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed
the deposit file from the safe. By this doing, what is required of you is
to send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the
late Mr Erick Board. I will need your full name and address, company or
residential, so that i can computerize them to tally with next of kin
column in the certificate of deposit.

Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the
next of kin is ocassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and
for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin.

When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split
between us. Trusting to hear from you, I remain. You can call me on this
number: 234-8036835020 .

Respectfully yours,

Mr. John Eze




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