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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: kingsolomon@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:18:22 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?MUTUAL=20BENEFIT?=

FROM DR. SOLOMON KING
DEPUTY MANAGER,TREASURY OF
GLOBAL BANK PLC.
IKEJA BRANCH LAGOS PLEASE REPLY IN MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDERSS king_solomon333@yahoo.com




Dear Sir,

I am writing to you in strict Confidence and I know that my letter
will come to you as a great Surprise,owing to the fact that we have never
met before. I am Dr SOLOMON KING the immediate personal Friend to late Mr.Kong
Thang Lee,a citizen of the United States of America,though a korean by birth
who lived and worked here in Nigeria until his untimely death via an E.A.S
Bac 1-11-500 airliner that crashed on May 4th 2002,in Kano State, northern
part of Nigeria, killing all 149 passengers on board including Mr.Kong .


SEE: [http://www.usafricaonline.com/ngrplane.crash]for full details
about the crash.

Before his death,Lastly he was a Director (Special Operations)with AGIP
ENERGY SERVICES NIGERIA LTD.Recently,during one of my routine checks of
his official documents of which I had access,I discovered that my former
client in 1999 deposited a whooping sum of $10,000.000.00 (Ten million Dollars)without
a "WILL"in one of the Finance Comp any here in Nigeria of which I have the
Deposit Certificate in my possession.According to the Nigerian law of Inheritance,
itstipulates that at the expiration of 5(five)years after establishment
of facts about the death of a person,
the law accordingly stipulates that an official representative is
entitled to the wealth of the deceased on the condition of being the Next
of Kin of which he or she bears the same surname with the deceased person.

It also states that if at the end of such period there was no such
person to represent or claim such money or if nobody applies to claim ownership
of the such as well, the money will thereby revert to the Government. It
is on the above subject that I swung into action to avert this negative
trend since I know of such law, and in order not to allow such sad development
to occur.I have as a result of this made some positive efforts to locate
any of his relatives that could still be alive to date, for the purpose
of turnin g over to such person the Deposits and investments that he left
behind, but none has been fruitful so far.

As a result of this and upon my conviction that his family tree might have
gone extinct and going by the report I obtained from his
immigration data available with both the Finance Company where he deposited
his money and the Company where he worked,he had no relative known nor had
any wife or children that is registered with his country's embassy here.

In the light of the foregoing, and after doubt that he may not have any
relatives left,I now see it as a challenge and moral question of
whether to allow the Finance Company where he Deposited his money to
appropriate it to themselves,because of the belief that he has no surviving
relatives,or any one to demand for and collect this money from the Finance
Institution. In order to avert this negative development,I now seek your
assistance to stand as Next of Kin to my late client beca use of the similarity
of having the same surname with him so that the fund will be released and
paid in your favor as the Beneficiary/Next of Kin according to the law.


The advantages of you having the same surname with Him will indeed
enable us collect this fund deposited in the Finance Company here in Lagos,
Nigeria for our mutual benefit,I therefore, assure you of a risk free business
deal. All the necessary documents and papers for validating and authenticating
the legality to get this fund paid in your favor will be carefully worked
out in the course of transfeering this money in your favor. I have earlier
put this Notice to the Finance Company where this money is deposited that
soon my clients Next of Kin will come to claim the money.In response,they
agreed,but asked me to do so very quickly,or
have the account frozen and the fund forfeited because of the maturity date.
I,therefore, solicit for your interest to enable us,along side your full
support and assistance,transfer this funds into your nominated choice account.
Kindly send me your telephone and fax numbers for further details about
this transaction. I sincerly look forward to receiving your urgent reply
to this offer.

PLEASE REPLY IN MY PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDERSS king_solomon333@yahoo.com

Best Regards,

Dr SOLOMON KING


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