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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: "Edward White" <edwardwhite01@msn.com>
Reply-To: edwardwhite202@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:55:32 +0000
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY

FROM EDWARD WHITE CHAMBER'S & ASSOCIATE
Lion Building,Suite 52,
Saka Tinubu, Lagos Nigeria.

Dear sir/madam

I am Barr.Edward White personal attorney to mr.Engr.Thomas smith, a foreigner, who used to work with Zenon Oil Company here in Nigeria, Mr smith is my good client, but unfortunatly My client with his  entire family (The wife and Children) were involved in the bomb explosion in  Lagos,Nigeria, on January 27, 2002 which, claimed many livesb and property which was anounced in many countries around the world.

Him and his family lost their lives in that disaster that needed not to have happened. Since then I have made several enquiries to his embassy to locate any of his extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged and where the deceased had an account valued at about US$10.5 Million dollars. The guidelines of the bank stipulates that if any deposit remained unclaimed for over a period of 4 years and few months,without the fund claimed, the said deposit will be confiscated and this will happen with some couple of official working months if nobody come up for the money.

The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated, Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over two years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are a white , so that the proceeds of this account  valued at US$10.5 million dollars can be paid to your  account as his next of kin, then you and i can share the fund 60% for me and 35% for you,while 5% will be set aside for rembursement of incidental expenses that may incure during the process of the  transaction or tax as your government may require, I will secure certificate of deposit and other relevant approvals documents
that can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.See the 2 websites of the bomb explosion below: -
http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/index_txt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
                                   NOTE
That  any body I present as the next of kin of my late client, is the person that the bank will accept and release his fund to, and I cannot carry this transaction out with any body aged less than 24years, as to know who am trusting this huge amount of money in his/her care before I come over to him for disbursement as soon as the fund is paid to him.

I  also have contacted the manager of the bank and make him understand with me all i want to do towards the fund of my late cliant in there bank before there bank declear it unserviceble, and he accepted to assist, but  to have his share from mine when its transfered, i ccepted with him,so you have nothing to  think or fear for. NB:Pls include tome your private telphone and fax numbers in your:my alternative email address is <
edwardwhite202@yahoo.com>
thanks.

Looking forward to hear from you soonest.
With best regards,
Barr. Edward White

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