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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <dr_markscott01@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:48:37 +0000
Subject: From: Dr. Mark Scott



From: Dr. Mark Scott#31 Council of ChurchesP O Box 62098 Marshalltown2107 United Kingdom Dear Sir, I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship. I Dr. Mark Scott, the personal account officer to the great late Deceased who has an account in one of the top banks here in London, United Kingdom.The account was opened in 2002 and he died in 2004 without a written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating, and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing, and Government of United Kingdom will confiscate The funds for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a great opportunity in my life. My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund {?2,954,000.00} from a Cooperate Bank here in UK to an oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly Confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down in future because this business is my life. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the United Kingdom. As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give to you immediately, We will start the first transfer with Thirty Two Million {?2,000,000.00}.
Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of {?0, 954,000.00} to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here due to law in United Kingdom. At the conclusion of this transaction, your total share will be 40% of the total transfer sum,while 60% for me and my partners who is helping in makeing this sucessful. If you are interested, please forward the following information as below:information as below:
{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,{2} Bank Name:............ ..........{3} Bank Address.....................{4} Account No:......................{5} Swift Code...{if any}{6} Account Holder's Name: ....................{7} Your telephone Number. both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax Numbers.........................{8} Your Occupation..................{9} Your Valid ID ...................
Upon the receipt of the above details, payment will be Activated by the feeding of your data into payment system, followed by a signal that will be sent to the paying bank to remit the funds into your nominated bank account within 7 official working days of receipt of the above information.
You can contact me on my private email :(dr_markscott01@msn.com)Best Regards,Dr. Mark Scott

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