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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: "Mr Alan Kant" <alankant5@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:58:19 +0000
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU

220 Balham High Road
Central London W17 7BQ
United Kingdom.

Dear friend,

I know that this mail will come to you out of the blue as a total surprise.
Well, I have a business proposal which I believe might interest you. I
believe that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid to transfer
the sum of (£18.5M.) Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds
into a foreign bank account.

I am Dr Alan Kant,an Auditor of a bank here in London.During the course of
our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank
in 1999 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account.After a lot of
investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank account died without a
beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not remit this money out it
will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of the account is a foreigner. He died since 2000 and the bank
account has no other beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody
knows about this account or anything concerning it. So I want to grab this
opportunity, as it is no harm to nobody.

I am here soliciting for your assistance as a foreigner because the money
cannot be approved to
anybody here. But It can be approved to a foreigner with valid
international passport or drivers license and foreign bank account because
the former owner of the account is a foreigner. The management must approve
this payment to you if you have the correct information of this account,
which I will give to you,upon your positive response and once I am convinced
that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of key bank official
who is deeply involved with me in this project.

With my influence and the position of the bank officials, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival at
your end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign bank account or an empty
account can serve to receive this money.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be give 20% of the total
amount, 75% will be for the bank official and I, while 5% will be for
expenses both parties might have incurred during the course of this
transaction. May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I will inform you the
next step to take. Send also your private phone and fax number including the
full details of the bank account to be used for the deposit.You can call me
now. phone..+44-7236740312

Regards.

Dr Alan Kant

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