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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: "Mr.David Delee" <daviddele@live.com>
Reply-To: daviddelee@live.co.za
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:35:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Business opportunity




Mr. David Delee

Johannesburg

South Africa

Tel: +27 83 546 2533

Fax: +27 86 636 5957



Dear Sir / Madam,



I am Mr. David Delee, the Senior Manager of Coin Security Company in Johannesburg South Africa. I discovered the sum of thirty one million, five hundred thousand United States dollars ($31,500,000), belonging to one of our company’s late client.



He deposited this money as family valuables in a metallic security safety box, and no one in the security company knows that the metallic security safety box contains such amount of money.



This deposit of money has been in our company’s custody since May 2004, without anyone coming to claim it. As a result of my investigations, I discovered that the depositor of this metallic security safety box is one Late Mr. Andreas Schranner from Munich in Germany. He was a German man who died in a plane crash of 25th July 2005 (Flight Af4590).



Since the depositor of this money is dead, and no next-of-kin was specified to claim the metallic security safety box, I have decided to take the ultimatum and introduce this business opportunity to you, You are expected to act as the Next-of-kin or relative to our deceased client Late Mr. Andreas Schranner, so that this money will be released to you as the beneficiary, If this metallic security safety box is not claim, after seven year (7), it will be taken into the company’s treasury as UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT. So as such this deposit box has got only

(1) Year left to stay in our custody (2004 – 2011), In other words, you and I needs to act very quickly.



I would really appreciate if this business opportunity is kept highly confidential between me and you to avoid impersonation, internal double-crossing, and leakage of information regarding this deposit in our company. With your utmost co-operation, I would use my position as the Senior Manager to make sure this money is released to you as the beneficiary; afterwards, it can be deposited to any account of your choice in your country.



Nevertheless, if you agree to this business proposal to act as the Next-of-Kin to Late Mr. Andreas, I have decided to give you 40% of the entire money, 50% will be for me, while 10% will be for any miscellaneous expenses incurred at the process of this business transaction.



As soon as the money is transferred to your proposed account in your country, I will then travel to your country for the sharing of the funds as specified above.



Do not contact any of our company contact information. Kindly contact myself on my private contact details above for more briefing.





Yours faithfully,





Mr. David Delee

Senior Manager

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