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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: =?UTF-8?Q?=57=69=6C=6C=69=61=6D=73=20=57=69=6C=6C=69=61=6D=73?= <richardwilliams20091@walla.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:29:06 +0200
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=67=6F=6F=64=20=64=61=79=2E?=



From: Mr.Richard Williams,

Group Chief Executive of

Lloyds Banking Group

25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN

www.lloydsbankinggroup.com

 

RE: MY REQUEST FOR PARTNERSHIP !!

 

My Name is Mr.Richard Williams, the Group Chief Executive, Lloyds Banking Group, Main Branch here in London. On a routine inspection i discovered a dormant account with a Balance of £15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterlings).On Further investigation, i also discovered that the account holder Late Mr. John Shumejda, of Florida America who perished in plane crash at Birmingham Airport on 4th Jan, 2002, with other passengers aboard as you can comfirm it through these web sites bellow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm

 

http://www.cwn.org.uk/business/a-z/a/agco/2002/01/020104-air-crash.htm

 

 

He died leaving no beneficiary to the account, and the bank will approve this money to any foreigner who have information about this account which i will give to you. because the former operator of this account is a foreigner from Florida America and i am certainly sure that he is dead and nobody will come to claim this money again.Therefore i need your full cooperation in this transaction, i will provide all the necessary information needed in order to claim this money, but you will need to send to me information about yourself so that i will trust you for this business, your full name and address including you phone/fax number and your occupation.

want to assure you that this transfer is 100% risk free you have nothing to worry about because i am with the account information of Late Mr. John Shumejda, which i will give to you.

 

Finally, i promise you 40% of the total money for your corporation and assistance while 50 % will be for me there after i and my family will visit your country for investment and 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that might made in the process of succeeding the transaction while remaining 5% will be donated to the charity and motherless babies home. If you are interested, please reply me through My Private email (richardwilliams505@yahoo.com.hk), for more details about this transaction.

 

Thanks and God bless.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr.Richard Williams.


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