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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: donk4ever@tiscali.it
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:51:46 -0800
Subject: ACT AS NEXT OF KIN


I Am Mr.kazeem Akinwale, in charge of bills and foreign
exchange remittance Department of Lead Merchant Bank
PLc. I am writing you this letter to ask for your
support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department. We discovered an
unclaimed sum of $24.5Million (Twenty-four million
five hundred thousand dollars) in an account belonging
to one of our customer, who died in a plane crash with
the entire family in year 2001. Since we got
information about his death we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money.
Unfortunately,neither the family nor the relation has
appeared to claim this money. We cannot release this
money unless somebody applies as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased. Our banking guidelines
indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for a
period of four (4) years, it would be transferred into
the Lead Merchant Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund.
Another officer and I in the department now decided to
transfer this money into your account as the next of
kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection
since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this
money to go back into the bank treasury as the
unclaimed debt. Infact it is my friend that advised me
to urgently arrange to transfer out this money through
another foreign beneficiary outside the country. We
have decided to give you 45% of the total sum. So
please, as a matter of urgency send to me your
telephone and fax numbers for effective communication.
I will do my best to see that we conclude this
transaction successfully on time. Please if you are
intrested send me an immediate mail so that I can
explain the details to you to understand everything
about this business Waiting for your urgent response.
Regards,
Kazeem Akinwale


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