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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: "moses akinyemi" <mosesakinyemi2@deewan.com>
Reply-To: mkkyemi@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:12:47 GMT
Subject: response needed

Attn: Friend,
I am Mr Moses Akinyemi, I work with the office of the Director,
Foreign Operation Dept,Grand Bank of africa PLC, Lagos Branch. It
happend On the 2nd of May 2002, Mr laird steven , a national of your country who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development Company In Nigeria (SPDC).
Mr laird steven , his wife And their three children were involved in a car accident .
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since
then, Grand Bank of africa PLC have made several enquiries to
your embassy to locate any of the extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful 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.
I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money that belong to Mr laird steven before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $25Million Dollars has issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since bank have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased ,so that the proceeds of this account valued at $25Million Dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money,55% to me and 35% to you, while 10% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require,we have relivant documents which will be obtain on your behalf from the federal high court of justice over here that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest co-operation 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 as soon posssible: to enable us discuss further.If you are interested i would like you to give me the following information and reply only to my private mail box mkkyemi@yahoo.ca

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Yours Faithfully,
Mr Moses Akinyemi.


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