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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: "RICHARD DAVID" <david_richard112@msn.com>
Reply-To: david_richard112@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:23 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSALS

Dear friend,

My name is David Richard and I am an artist. I live in London, with my two
kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a full
house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me
about 23 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few
college art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or airbrush
mixed with color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating
artwork on the computer. I have been selling my art for the last 3 years and
have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have
sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world. I am
always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to
Americans, they are always offering to pay with a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER,
which is difficult for me to cash here in London.

I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for me
as a part time worker and I will be willing to pay %10 for every
transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work, someone who
would help me receive payments from my customers in the states. I mean
someone that is responsible and reliable, cause the cost of coming to the
state and getting payments is very expensive, I am working on setting up a
branch in the state, so for now I need a representative in the united state
who will be handling the payment aspect.

These payments are in money order and they would come to you in your name,
so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage and wire
the rest back.
But the problem I have is trust, but I have my way of getting anyone that
gets away with our money, I mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve.

It wouldn’t cost you any amount you are to receive payments which will be
sent to you by FedEx or ups US from my business partners, which would come
in form of a money order then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via
western union money transfer all western union charges will be deducted from
the money.

If you are interested, please get back to me as soon as possible.

Regards
David Richard.

N.B: Endeavor to send your reply through my alternative
E-mail address: david_richard112@yahoo.co.uk



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