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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: "DAN WATER" <dan_water1@msn.com>
Reply-To: danchambers_org@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:02:52 +0000
Subject: ATTN:MAHONEY,FOR PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT!

Dear Mahoney,

Complement of the season, I am sending this mail to you as a matter of
urgency, for business fund investment transfer, which you are required to
secure for an investment in your country, I decided in contact you due to
the urgency of this fund transaction, as I have been reliably noted in mind
on your discreteness and ability for investment of this fund to family of
the late. Mr. Fredrick,I find it easies to use your name since to secure the
inheritance fund since you bear the same related name with my late client
for their future Investment, Let me hereby introduce myself to you, I am
BARRISTER DAN WALTER, an advocate and Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney
to Mr. Fredrick, who used to work with Shell Oil Development Company. Is a
quit unfortunate on the 15 of April 2003, my client was involved in a car
accident along Sagbama Express Road, leaving behind his wife Nancy and her
two children, on the aged of 6 and 3 years respectively.

Since then, members of his immediate family has constantly harassed and
intimidated his wife, Nancy (it is actually the tradition of their native
land for the deceased brothers to inherit his properties). They have
collected and seized the man’s properties, collected his bank account
papers, forcefully confisticated and shared his cars as well as documents to
his two houses and sent her packing out of her husband’s house. All my
attempts and several other attempts by friends at resolving the crisis by
calling the parties involved to a meeting has been unsuccessful. The law
court could not handle the issue since the traditional rulers have come out
to say it’s their tradition.Meanwhile Recently, the late Mr.Fredrick wife
Nancy, has intimated me about US$15.5million that her late husband lodged in
a security company. Upon investigation, I discovered that her late husband
made this money through some over-invoiced contract he awarded during his
tenure as the head of CONTRACT/PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT of The Shell Oil
Development Company .She said, one of her relatives who used to live with
them and is probably knows little about the fund while his trying to
instigated other members of the family against her, with the view to
collecting The CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITE to this fund and probably collecting
the fund for sharing amongst themselves.

So, I write this letter on her behalf, seeking for your assistance in
receiving this fund on her behalf for safe-keeping and possibly investing it
to yield profits for the upkeep of her and her two children and This fund is
her last hope of training her two children and living a meaningful life on
earth. On your acceptance to receive and keep this fund for her, you will be
entitled for the 30% of the total sum, and 10% of the fund has to been sat
aside after the fund is transfer in other to take care of all expenses that
might arise in the course of this transfer while the remaining 60% is for
her and her family. She is now on the right possession by having the
original documents and that is to be used for the effective transfer of the
fund to you without hitches.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through. I Guarantee to you that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from every breach of the
Law.Please get in touch with for more information through my alternative
Email danchambers_org@yahoo.com

Thanks and stay bless

BARR.DAN WALTER
Email: danchambers_org@yahoo.com



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