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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: "SR" <si_ren17@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: s_renaud@libero.it
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:01:51 +0000
Subject: Your Response


YOUR ATTENTION:
I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account. 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 decided to contact you due to
the urgency of this transaction.

We discovered a Huge abandoned sum in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death,
none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay
claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we
now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased
as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for
the funds to be released in your favour as the beneficiary next of kin.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order
of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiary.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with your full names, address and direct contact
numbers.
These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate
departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can
be made.
We shall be compensating you with a million dollars on final conclusion
of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while
the rest shall be for us for investment purposes. If this proposal is
acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed
in you, I await your urgent mail.

Please reply to EMAIL:s_renaud@zwallet.com,I will introduce myself fully
pending your response.

Regards,
S.R


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