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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: nkor@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 04:44:55 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20OPPORTUNITY?=

FROM THE DESK OF ARISHA NKOR
POSITION: SENIOR MANAGER, BILLS AND EXCHANGE
REPLY TO:nkor@myway.com
I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust to enable my colleagues
and I carry out an urgent business opportunity in my department. I work
with the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior manager of
bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of my bank. I was
the account officer to one Mr.William.E.Caswell who died along with his
family on the 11th of September 2001 in an American Airline Flight 77 plane
crash at Pentagon All 141 passengers on board were feared dead. He left
in his domiciliary account the total sum of fifty Million four hundred thousand
united States Dollars[$50,4M].Since the management got the information of
his death we have been expecting any of his relation or his next of kin
to come up and claim his money.

Unfortunately from the day of his death till the time of this letter none
of his relation or friends has come up for the claim. The banking and financial
law of Union bank of Nigeria Plc stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed
after a period of seven year(7yrs) it will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill. On this discovery sir,I and two other senior
staffs now decided to do business with you and release the money to you
as the next of kin to Mr.William.E.Caswell for safety and subsequent disbursement.I
will soon proceed for my retirement leave this year, and I personally do
not want this fund to be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill. That is why I wanted the fund to be moved out of the bank before I
proceed on my retirement from the banking services by April
15th 2005.

The need for a foreigner as next of kin in this project is occasioned by
the fact that the customer Mr.William.E.Caswell was a foreigner and a Nigerian
cannot stand as his next of kin or heir. We have agreed that 30% of the
Fund would be for you as foreign partner; thereafter my colleague and I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.To
enable the immediate transfer of the fund into your nominated account, you
will first apply to the bank as the next of kin of the deceased, indicating
your bank account number and location wherein the money will be remitted.Upon
receipt of your acknowledgement indicating your interest,I will send to
you the text of the application that you will send to the Union Bank authority
for an approval to submit your claims.Send your reply through my direct
and private email address(nkor@myway.com )indicate your direct Fax and telephone
numbers for effective communication that this transaction needs. Do not
reply through the union bank email address because it belongs to the senior
staffs for public use.

Please note that you are not to appear in person, as every thing regarding
this project will be strictly on documentations and every banking documents
needed for this transaction will be taken care of by myself.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours Faithfully
ARISHA NKOR



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