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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: <w_aku@echina.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:30:53 -0700
Subject: NEXT OF KIN

Hello,

Good day and compliment of the seasons to you. My Name
is Williams Aku, the eldest son of Late Ishaya Mark
Aku the former Minister of youths and sports in
Nigeria
I am a 27-Year-Old-Nigerian in possession of my Late
dad's properties.I lost him in a plane crash During
his trip from a meeting he attended with some other
ministers in Abuja.Since his death, I have been in
charge of his business and properties and I have got
no problem with that since I have been doing that even
before his death. I received a letter from one of his
bank in Nigeria recently notifying me of a paymment
worth 47.5Million dollars made into his account by a
computer firm Named "I.F Computer GmbH Cecinastr"
37D-82205 Gilching, Germany.
The money as I read is the Balance payment from a
computer business he engaged in with the Federal
Government of Nigeria during the NIGHA 2002(NIGERI
A/GHANA NATION'S CUP CO-HOST). As a result of this
notification I have written a letter through my Lawyer
to the bank to deposit the Money into a Vault House ,
in which I have successfully carried out in the last
two month. Since I am his next of kin ,it was so easy
for me in doing this without the knowledge of my
extended family members cos I am from a polygamous
family .I want to try as much as possible to transfer
this money out of this Vault House before my family
members got to know about this. I know that this issue
is a very sensitive one and it should not be discuss
on the net. Why dont you send me your phone #and your
Fax #.so that, I will get in touch with you .This deal
is a risk
free one and your gain shall be 30% of this money
provided you co-operate with me .Remember not to tell
anybody about this because my daddy happens to be very
popular person even after his death.
I will be very grateful if you can help me.

you can get back at me on my Private email :
w_aku2@echina.com

Williams Aku



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