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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: "De Mayor King" <demayorkings@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: demayorking@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:35:59 -0700
Subject: Trusting you

Standard Trust Bank Plc,
Eastern regional head quarters,
50, Western Avenue
Lagos Island
Lagos state, Nigeria.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am (De Mayor Kingsley) the bank manager of Standard Trust Bank Nigeria
plc.

I will like to introduce a very brief business with you, there is a dormant
account in my bank with a credit balance of (USD$15.000.000.00) Fifteen Million
United state dollars which has been dormant for about five years now, on
my further investigation I discovered that the owner of account is a foreigner
(Mr. Roberts Harvey) who died five years ago in a motor accident along side
his wife and two children, coincidentally he shares the same surname with
you but left no information about his next of kin for the account because
he was hiding the source of the money from the government.

What I need from you is to use your name as the beneficiary and next of kin
to the original account owner and then I will use my position as the Bank
Manger to give Clearance and onward remission of the fund into your nominated
account.

I will supply you with all necessary information about the account, which
you will present to the bank through a lawyer, after the bank has accepted
your application then I will go ahead and destroy every documents associated
with this transaction and we will go ahead and share the money at the ratio
40% for your services to me and 55% for me, the remaining 5%will be set aside
for any expenses incurred during this transaction.

Please your urgent reply is highly needed so as to stop further contacts,
this is for people who know the value of banking system, kindly include your
telephone and fax numbers.

Thanks,

Best Regard,

De Mayor Kingsley



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