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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: "Alice Nicole" <nic_alice@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:52:38 +0000
Subject: ATTN:TREAT AS URGENT(CONFIDENTIAL)

Compliment,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not
a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it  as serious as can be . We want to
transfer to an oversea account ($16,500.000.00 USD) Sixteen Million
Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from one of the banks in
europe(which will be made known to you in the course of this
transaction). I
want to ask you? If you are not capable, to quietly look for a reliable
and
honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing
bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even
an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain
honest to me(us) till the end of this important business ,I am trusting
in
you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or
in
future.

I am MRS. ALICE NICOLE,a banker. During the course of our auditing last
week,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
1996
and since 1998 nobody has operated on this account again, after going
through some old files in the records,I discovered that the owner of
the
account died without a [Heir/Will] hence the money is floating and if I
do
not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.


The owner of this account Mr. Morris Thompson an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Alaska,  unfortunately lost his life in
the
plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crahsed on January 31
2000,including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody as next of
kin. You
shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site:
(http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/)


No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well
that the account is a secret account.

The total amount involved is Sixteen million Five Hundred Thousand
United
States Dollars only [$16,500.000.00] and we wish to transfer this money
into
a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner, I am
only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to
a
local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the
account,
which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I am revealing
this
to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business,
you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this
business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next
step
to take urgently.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, ( other
key
bank officials who are deeply involved with me in this business). I
guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.


We will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive
this
money,leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and
influence to
obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account
with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign
exchange
departments.

At the conclusion of this transaction, you will be given 25% of the
total
amount,70% will be for us, while 5% will be for expenses both parties
might
have incurred during the process of transfer. I look forward to your
earliest reply.You can call me on +44- 703-1909-724 for more details or
reply via my private email address.

Best Regards,

MRS. ALICE NICOLE,
Tel: +44- 703-1909-724  London ,Uk.

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