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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: victoria kester <victoriakester@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re:Urgent


Dearest one,
I greet you in the name of our lord Jesus Christ. My
name is MRS. VICTORIA STEVE KESTER I am a widow and a mother
of two (2) all girls. I know you will see my letter to
you as an mbarrassment considering the fact that we do
not know ourselves.
I plead with you to be patient with me I feel very
pleased to contact you for some assistance and
business relationship.
I live in Nigeria with my children. My late husband
was a loving, caring and hardworking businessman who
died unfortunately In a ghastly auto crash.
Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, and
father of my daughters,my late husband intended to
establish a business in the united states of America
with the sum of$20 million united states dollars, but
unfortunately he died before this proposed venture.
Following his death, his family members insisted that
I am not entitled to his property (Assets and money)
since I am a woman and my offspring's all girls as I
do not have a male child for my husband.
Well, according to some barbaric traditional laws here
in Nigeria (Africa)which doesn't permit a woman to
inherit a man's property, as they are expected by
tradition to take over the management of his business
and other properties including myself who
automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate
brothers.
Unfortunately to this wicked family members, the $30
million united states dollars which my late husband
intended to use in establishing a business in the
United States was deposited in a bank account unknown
to his family.
I and the lawyer is the only one aware of this money,
so I have discussed this matter with a staff of the
bank that i want this money personally so that I will
be able to take care of my children's educational
needs
since my husband's family members vehemently opposed
the furtherance of their education. According to the
staff of the bank, the best way to secure this money
is to transfer this money to a bank account outside
Nigeria For safe-keeping,later it will b e used for
business establishment subject to the Advise of
whosoever finally assists us.
At this juncture, I there fore ask for your sincere
assistance in providing us with your bank details and
the enablement to facilitate the remittance of this
fund into your nominated account.
As soon as I get your positive response, I shall
provide you with all the necessary detail for this
transfer. However, I have decided to to give you
25% of the total money as a reward for your sincere
assistance and the 65% of the money will be for my
investment while 5% of the money will be mapped
aside for local and international expenses as I will
want to keep aglow my late husbands dream of investing
in real estate or any lucrative business that you may
want us to invest the money into in your country.
To be able to help me, kindly send through my email,
your personal details including your contact
information for easy communication.
Thanks you for your anticipated response.
Please do reach me only on this email address which
is:victoriakester@yahoo.com




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