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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: barrister_nwinyeruze@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:42:51 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?hello=20=20Arjen?=

FROM: BARRISTER NWINYER UZERIBE BANK MANAGER(CONTINENTAL TRUST BANK OF NIGERIA
PLC)MARINA LAGOS ATTENTION: PRESIDENT/CEO Dear Friend, REQUEST FOR YOUR
UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day.We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we have been reliably informed of it's swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am BARRISTER
NWINYER UZERIBE, A Manager at the Continental Trust Bank PLC, Lagos. I came
to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person
to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of
a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. A
foreigner, Late Engineer William robert, an oil Merchant /contractor with
the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a
ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the Continental Trust Bank PLC,
Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$22.2M (Twenty-Two Million, Two Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects
to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively
be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military
war collage here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being made by
this bank to get in touch with any of late Engr. (William Arjen)'s next
of kin (he had no known wife and children), but all our efforts proof abortive.
Right now, the management and the Board of directors of this bank has made
an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently
donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition, which will further enhance
the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert
this negative development, myself and some of my trusted colleagues in the
bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Engr.(WILLIAMS
Arjen)'s next of kin so that this fund (USD$22.2M) would be subsequently
transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully
worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share
would be 30% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while
the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for purposes in your country.
If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of the
trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my e-mail address furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
fax and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this
transaction.
please contact me only through this following email forsecurity reason (barrister_nwinyer_uzeribe@yahoo.com)
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.
Regards. BARRISTER NWINYER UZERIBE



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