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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: David Clark <davidclark2012@rocketmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:03:39 +0800
Subject: Dear Sir / Ma,

Dear Sir / Ma,

Please this mail is intended for you and no other person with no urterior motive.
Well i sincerely seek to solicit if you can whole heartedly provide a genuine account for the transfer of the sum of US$17.5M which was duly approved for payment to one beneficiary whom we have discovered to be late without any known beneficiary to claim this fund which has for some time been floating on our computer payment system list as unclaimed.

It will cost you virtuely a token or nothing for you to benefit on this transaction which we shall on our part provide the legal back up documents for the remittance of the fund into the account you will provide via our approved paying bank.

Do email me your old or new bank account information to be used ,as well as your direct contact phone number, business or home address devoid of p. o . box as well as a scanned copy of your id.

For your effort and contribution towards the realization of the transaction, you will receive 20% of the US$17.5M as well as the refund or repayment of any fund you might commit in the course of the transaction.

For further clarification if you so desire, you are free to call on me on + 234 - 817- 4636 - 796 for all legal paper work will be done at our end so as to put you and your account on clean free illegalities as we intend using 40% of fund to procure top class modern hospital surgical machines if you can handle it for us over there as a first class hospital nearing completion is on the ground to be equiped .

Regards,
David E. Clark

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