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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: "skrry" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <skrr873.4@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:22:10 -0400
Subject: Please read

I am contacting you for a serious and urgent transaction. We have only 7days to complete this transaction.
Please this is a sad moment in Poland due to the death of my brother,Mr.Slawomir Skrzypek.
My late brother,Slawomir Skrzypek is the Poland Central Bank Governor before he met his untimely death in Russia aircraft crash on Saturday,10th,April 2010.
My brother left behind US$205,000,000(Two Hundred and five million dollars) in trust with the Africa Development Bank, this is a mutual fund agreement that is suppose to serve a contigency purpose.
Now my brother is dead,i need you to act as the receiver of the fund, because i have the deposit scheme with me, and all you need to do is to contact the Bank and request for the release of the money to you, you will stand as the partner to my brother because this was agreed upon between him and the Bank before his death.
I am ready to give you 40% out of the money and you will transfer the rest money to my account in sWitzerland according to my instruction, everything must be private and confidential because you know i am very close to my brother and it must not be disclose that he had such money at his disposal due to his position as the Poland Central Bank Governor.
Please i need serious minded person that is ready to comply with all requirement and instruction to get the money release because we have no time to waste.
I will give you necessary document through the email and i will provide the Bank information to you so you can contact them for the release of the money to you.
We, the family need the money, please help.
If you are ready, provide the below information to me asap.
Your full name:
Residential address:
Office Address:
Occupation:
Age:
Mobile Number:
Office Number:
Home Number:
You will receive the whole money before you can send mine to me so you need to write a memorandum of understanding to me that you will send my own share of the money when you receive it without any delay.
Regards,
A.Skrzypek

read the article below to know more about his death:

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/casualties-list-of-poland-air-crash-passengers-1.610483
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_plane_crash
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/5784273.cms
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100410/tts-uk-poland-president-crash-ca02f96.html

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