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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Ferdinard Meyers" <ferdinardmeyers3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ferdinandmeyers@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:54:31 +0000
Subject: RESPONSE APPRIECIATED

FROM THE DESK OF DR FERDINARD MEYERS.
REGENT ALLIANCE AND SECURITIES
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
105 Regent Street
WIB 5SR,London
United Kingdom.

Dear Partner,

My name is DR FERDINARD MEYERS,the Bill and Exchange(assistant) Manager of

the REGENT ALLIANCE AND SECURITIES,BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT UNITED
KINGDOM. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
USD$18.3M(EIGHTEEN
MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S.A DOLLARS). In an account that
belongs to
this our foreign customer who died along with his wife and children in
the
plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased,
as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that
all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our
late
customer was a foreigner and a British cannot stand as next of kin to
a
foreigner.On the account of your reliability and trust worthiness,I
have
decided to contact you in order to transfer the said amount into your
nominated bank account,it's 100% risk free.

Upon receipt of the above mentioned, I will send to you by fax or
e-mail a
TEXT OF APPLICATION which you shall re-type and fax to our foreign
remittance Department,for easy execution of the transaction.

All necessary documents shall be obtained on your behalf to back-up
this
claims.Kindly contact me on for security reason and for more
explanations
and possible means of transferring the fund into your account.If you
accept
our offer I shall compensate you with 30% of the money, 60% goes to me
and
my colleague, after which we shall visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.

I am assuring you that with my position this money will hit your
account
before 21 banking working days.

Send an e-mail as soon as you get this message,I will be waiting.

NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Yours Sincerely,

DR FERDINARD MEYERS


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