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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: "Alfred Garry" <alfredgarry3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alfred_garry@swissmail.net
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:03:41 +0000
Subject: Acknowledgement.

United Trust Bank Limited
80 Haymarket, London
SW1Y 4TE

I am Mr.Alfred Garry, the account officer of
Mr.Morris Thompson who died in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31
2000 along with his wife and only daughter
( who happens to be his next of kin).

He has an account with us.You should read more about
the crash on visiting this site(s).

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html.

Since we got information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come
over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or as a
relative to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.

I was contacted by the Executor of his will to find
somebody that can stand in as his next of kin, so that
the funds would not be trapped in our bank. All legal
paper work will be taken care of by him(the Executor)


If you are favorably disposed to joing us in doing
this, please respond as soon as possible to my confidential email address
(alfred_garry@swissmail.net).In the event
you are not interested, I sincerely ask that you
disregard this email and tell no one about it. I am
very careful on truncating my banking career should
you mention this to someone else. I hope you can be
trusted in this regard.


Regards,

Mr.Alfred Garry
Tel:+447767698146
Fax:+448701286928


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