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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: donwill@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:20:18 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?hello=20fam?=

FROM: Dr. don willBANK 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 Dr. don will, 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 fams, 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 fam
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 fam'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.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.

Regards.

Dr. don will



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