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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: jamess_dr@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:39:11 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ON=20BEHALF=20OF=20WILLIAMS?=

LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING
HOSPITAL (LUTH)
YABA LAGOS NIGERIA
# 12 MEDICAL ROAD
YABA.
Email:: jammes_dr@yahoo.com
Concerning Late Mr. Williams
I am Dr. JAMES WHITE, I was the Personal consultant to Mr. Francis
Williams,
a national of your country, who

was
admitted in our hospital by name Lagos University Teaching Hospital
(LUTH).Herein
after shall be referred to as

my
patient. On the 9th of April 2003,this client, his Wife was involved in
a car Accident along Saint Matthew way.

They where
eventually brought to the hospital to fast attention but due to nature
his
wife died before we would attend to her

because
of extreme loss of blood. I am sorry to use the language but Mr. Francis
was abandoned in this hospital we had

no future
contacts of his household members or relatives but the hospital went
ahead
and made several inquiries to your

embassy
to locate any of this patient extended relatives but this has proved
Unsuccessful.
This hospital was personally

made to
understand by Louis that he had some funds in a bank in Nigeria by name
Access Bank Of Nigeria.
He said he is telling us that in case he dies but we encouraged him that
he isn?t going to die but he went ahead

to give us
the account information?s and contacts to the bank. While he was still
alive
after several unsuccessful attempts to

find his
relatives, we decided to involve the Nigerian-International People
Background
Search institution for a strong

research on
his last name. After their research they got your name and email address
and forwarded it to the hospital. The

hospital
informed me about this and also appointed me to handle this issue Hence
I contacted you. I have contacted you

to work
with the hospital in repatriating the money and property left behind by
this patient who has been proven by the
background institution as your relative before they get confiscated or
declared
Unserviceable by the bank where

this
huge deposits were Lodged according toLate Louis. The deceased before
his
death had made the hospital

understand
that he had an account valued at about 20 million Dollars with the
Access
Bank of Nigeria.
Louis said that this account was opened up with anagreement of terms and
conditions of closure for he said that

the
funds contained in that account was his funds paid to him after business
with the Nigerian crude oil organization

and may
be confiscated after a period of time if funds are not totally withdrawn
from that account. Since the hospital have

been
unsuccessful in locating the Relatives for about a year now we seek your
consent to Present you as the next of

kin of the
deceased since the background institution says that you are his relative
in which you may not know or believe so

that the
proceeds of this account valued at 20 million dollars can be paid To you
as his kin.All we require from you is to

be
truthful,straightforward and your honest co-operation to enable us put
you
through in this project. Send your reply

to my
personal email address ( jammes_dr@yahoo.com). And include a valid
Telephone
and mobile number for the

hospital
management will like to speak with you before further proceedings. Once
we speak with you and are satisfied

then we
shall release all banking information?s including the contact to the
bank
given to us
We look forward to your urgent response.
Best regards,
Dr. JAMES WHITE
For Luth




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