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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: "SILVER GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY" <williams@teamsilverglobal.com>
Reply-To: privatemail101@box.az
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:54:20 +0000
Subject: I will be looking forward to hear from you.

KINDLY REPLY URGENT
REV BAR WILLIAMS`CHAMBERS
16,PARK VIEW ESTATE IKOYI
LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Good day,
*IMPORTANT AND PLEASE READ CAREFULLY*

This mail is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form to you
but i must solicit your confidentiality, i know a proposal of this magnitude
will make anyone apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that it
issent in good faith and will be of mutual benefit to both parties.I am REV
BAR J WILLIAMS, a solicitor at law,and the personal attorney to MR .KENNETH
a nationale of your country, who worked with shell-development Company in
Nigeria.Here after referred to as my
client.Please do not feel bad about the manner of reaching out to you it is
so because I am
compelled to contact you due to the situation am faced with. On the 21st of
April 2000, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a
car accident along sagamu express road,all
occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have
made several inquires to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives,this has prove unsuccessful and these several unsuccessful
attempts to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I am
contacting you to assist me to repatriate the money and property left behind
by my client before they get confiscated in the bank treasury or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged.


The Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about 28.8 million
dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next fourteen official working days. Since I
have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for almost 4years now I
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so
thatthe proceeds of this account valued at 28.8 million dollars can be paid
to your account.For God sake, I have all necessary legal documents that can
be used to back up any claim we may make anywhere. All i require is your
honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law. I am willing
to give you a reasonable percentage (30%) of this money at the conclusion of
the transaction.


Furnish me with your contact TELEPHONE and FAX numbers as soon as possible.I
will be looking forward to doing business with you and I do solicit your
Confidentiality in this transaction.Please mail your Response and all other
Correspondence to me through my Confidential/Private email address below in
order for me to update you more on the plans as to how we intend to
actualize this transaction most successfully.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Best regards,

BARR.J WILLIAMS (SAN)
KINDLY REPLY TO: privatemail101@box.az


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