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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: y_hee@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:56:50 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?partnership?=

I would like that you treat this email with all seriousness until now I
work with a bank in South Korea. I am highly placed in the bank and I
am
in charge of the government account. I have discovered that some of the
account are dormant with a lot of money in the account on further
investigation I found out that one particular account belong to the
former
president of south Koreans MR PARK CHUNG HEE, who ruled south Koreans
from
1963-1979 and this particular account has a deposit of $43m with no
next
of kin.

Since I am the account officer and the money or the account is dormant
and
there is no next of kin because the past president hid the money when
he
was still in office. Obviously the account owner the former president
of
South Korean has died long time ago, leaving the money
behind and nobody is claiming it because there is no next of kin.

The money that is in the deposit is $43m and this is what I would like
to transfer to you for our mutual benefit. Please if this is of
interest
to you I will advice that you contact me through my direct email
address.
Please this transaction should be kept confidential. For your
assistance
we shall share the money on equal basis.
Please this transaction should be kept confidential.

Your reply will be appreciated,
Thank you,

Yick Young Hee





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