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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Anna Wright" <annawright03@msn.com>
Reply-To: annawright01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:55:24 +0000
Subject: Thanks for your mail and your acceptance to assist me and get this transaction c

Thanks for your mail and your acceptance to assist me and get this
transaction concluded and am very happy for that, Infect I quite appreciate
that and pray that by special grace of the Almighty father we shall get this
concluded and also make our relationship both in business and friends an
ever lasting one.


First, I will like to let you know that this project is legal and 100% risk
free ok, infect if you go through my first letter well you can be able to
understand the condition of me and my mother so why I need to make this move
because that is our only hope now since the government of Zimbabwe has
confiscated everything my mother inherited from my father. Please now, If
you're interested in assisting to make this transaction a reality as you
have indicated in your response.
Pls. send to me the following information with matter of urgency:

1. Your full name:
2. your address / Private telephone and fax numbers:
3. Date of birth:
4. Your Occupation:
5. copy of your International passport or Drivers License for
identification.
6. Hope you can be able to travel to the Affiliate office of the Security
Company here, where my late father made the deposit. They have their
affiliate’s office in Spain and where you will sign all the necessary
documents for the releasing of the consignment to you and possibly open an
account with any of the commercial banks there and paid it in and from there
you can re-transfer it to any other account of your choice..?

This information will be used in the documentation processes here. e.g.:
Change of ownership documents and affidavit document which will be procured
from the High Court the lawyer in London will arrange for that. And that
makes you to be the bonafide owner of the fund. And as soon as the whole
thing is through, the security company here will communicate and move
everything to their affiliated office in any the countries where you have
chosen to make the claims. Then you will then contact them to know when you
will arrive in or to know how the transfer will be done on your own request.
You should "NOTE" that my father deposited it as family treasure and
jewelries and antiquities as instructed then by my father with the security
company so they did not know the contents of it.

So as soon as I receive these information now then I will send it to the
layer and all the changes will be made in your name as the bonafide owner of
the fund and the lawyer whom I have contracted to prosecute this transaction
will also proceed to the high court to procure the affidavit in your name
and also authenticate it, And as soon he is through he have to scan and send
to you for your filling incase any of the office requested it from you.

So please kindly send all these information so that all the necessary
changes can be done immediately. Please I will be looking forward to hear
from you as soon as
possible.

Sincerely Yours.


Anna Wright.


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