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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: zar@fastermail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:18:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Een reactie van een gebruiker van Speurders.nl

zar@fastermail.com stuurt u de volgende reactie via Speurders.nl:

I'm interested in buying your Splinternieuwe ipod photo 60GB 12107380
I am Barrister zar Martins esq, I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Gerald Welsh a national of your country "Nederland", who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). On the 31st of October 2002, my client, his wife (Mrs. Caryl Welsh) and their three little children were involved in a plane crash, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the crash, Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.Firstly to get this (Splinternieuwe ipod photo 60GB 12107380) for the relocation of Client business,which is now my/ours and se condly I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unservice able by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $16.5 million U.S dollars (Sixteen million, five hundred thousand dollars).
Conseqently, The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 2 years now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $16.5 million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money. 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax
as your government may require. while you deduct the money for you () I will also be sending to you an M/O if you know you can chash it on time for our necessary usage.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this de al through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my email to enable us discuss further.
Yours Faithfully,
Barrister zar Martins esq.
Please indicate your full interest by inculding phone and fax number.i
This is my alternative email;zar@fastermail.com or zar1@fastermail.com
NB: this is a test to see if you can do the Job. and if you want to collect your money seperately you can forget the deal and do so.

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