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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: "FEMI WILLIAMS" <femiwilliams03@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:47:56 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir, your reply

STALLION TRUST BANK LIMITED.
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS NIGERIA
E-MAIL:femiwilliams035@yahoo.com
Dear Sir,
Compliment of the day
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by
virtue
of its nature as being CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that
a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive but I am
assuring that all will be well at the end of the day.We have decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this ransaction, as we have reliably
informed of your honesty and ability in a transaction of this nature.
Let me
first start by introducing myself properly to you.I am Femi williams, an
executive director with the Stallion Trust Bank Limited, Lagos Nigeria.
I
came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable
person
to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of
a
huge sum of money to a foreign account.
THE PROPOSITION: a foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Watts, an Oil
Merchant/Contractor with the federal government of Nigeria, until his
death
a year ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Stallion
Trust
Bank Limited . Lagos and had a closing balance as at the end of
September,
2003 worth USD25.5m (Twenty - Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United
States Dollar) which the bank now expects a next of kin to claim as
beneficiary.
Valuable efforts have been made by the Stallion Trust Bank Limited , to
get
in touch with Watts's family or relatives but there has been no
success. It
is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any
Late
Engr. Johnson Watts next-of-kin (he had no wife nor children that is
known
to the bank). That the management under the influence of our Managing
Director Chairman, Board of Directors, Jim Ovie, requested that
arrangement
be made forthe funds to be declared
"UNCLAIMABLE" and subsequently donated to the trust fund for arms
ammunitions to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the
world in
general.In order to prevent this, some of my trusted colleagues and I
now
seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.
Johnson Watts so that the fund USD 25.5m would be released and paid
into
your account as the
beneficiary's next-of-kin. All documents to enable you get this fund
will be
carefully worked out. This proposal is 100% risk-free. We have agreed
that
the fund be shared thus, after it must have been
transferred into your account.
1) 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
fund.
2) 10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any
incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the fund
transfer.
3) 60% to us the originators of the transaction. If this proposal is
acceptable to you, then take advantage of the trust we have bestowed on
you
and your company and kindly get to me immediately.Please, furnish me
with
your most confidential telephone, fax and mobile
numbers. Also your exclusive bank. Account particulars will be required
so
that I can use the information to apply for the release and subsequent
transfer of the funds in your favour.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-peration.

Yours faithfully,
Femi williams
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Stallion Trust Bank Limited .
PS: You may reply to femiwilliams035@yahoo.com as alternative email
address
Dear Sir, your reply

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