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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "George Davidson" <davidson@trini.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:10:46 GMT
Subject: Immediate Answer

Dearest,

I am Mr George Davidson, the CEO of Proper Consultant Ltd. London UK. I am the personal financial / business consultant to Mr Scott Grey Young, a foreigner who worked and died in United Kingdom without any will. I have made several enquiries to his Embassy to locate any of my clients relatives immediate and extended, this has proved unsuccessful.

After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace her relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but all to no avail. Hence, I am contacting you. I need you to assist in securing the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where his huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the bank where the deceased had a domicilliary account valued Euro.3,800,000:00 (Three million, eight hundred thousand Euro) only in Germany has issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin or have the account confiscated within the next one month.

Since I have been unsuccesful in locating the relatives for over one year now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at Euro.3,800,000:00 can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money. 60% to me and 37% to you, while 3% should be for expenses or tax as your government may reqiure.

I have all necessary documents to back up claims as Next of Kin on your behalf. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee 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 through my official email contact proper_consult@consultant.com or you can call me on my number +44 703 191 6550 to enable us discuss further on the issue.

Best regards,

Mr George Davidson

 
 
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