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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: Kelvin Richard <richard.kelvin57@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:25:19 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: SIR/MADAM YOUR REPLY NEEDED FOR US TO PROCEED IN THIS DEAL




 
Dear Friend,

please this is business and you are dealing with trustworthy personality,contact me{kelvinrichard@w.cn}

Greetings to you and your family I am Mr Kelvin Richard the manager of bill and exchange in bank, I have a business of 7.5 Million Euro to be transfer to your account for investment in your country if you are ready to assist me get back to me I will  give you full details on how the money will be transfer to you.
     
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we  are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of  the greedy Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help  of their Political advisers.
     
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of countrys was gold and  crude oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent.

Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no offcial trace of how much was transferred as all the  accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
     
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
     
They laundered over (78 Million Euro) during the process .As I am sending this  message to you, I was able to divert Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euro (€7.5M) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank.

The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas.
The (7.5 Million Euro) has been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver/trustworthy person.
     
The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .There is no one coming to  the funds because I secured everything.
     
kindly fill this form and get back to me as soon as possible via email{kelvinrichard@w.cn}

YOUR NAME____________________________

ADDRESS_______________________________

PHONE/MOBILE NO_______________________

YOUR CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDS__________

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN_______________________

SEX________________________

OCCUPATION _________________acct no.where this money will remited

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Kelvin Richard

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