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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: "Dr. Nwachinemere Young" <dr.nwachi@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_owezime@facileweb.com
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:15:23 +0000
Subject: Your co-operations please!

Your co-operations please!


From: Dr.Owezime Nwachinemere Young,
Manager, Credit and Foreign
Bills,Zenith International Bank Limited,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Reply to:dr_owezime@facileweb.com


My name is Dr. Owezime Nwachinemere Young, the manager Credit and
Foreign Bills of Zenith International Bank Limited of Nigeria.

I am writing in respect of foreign customer of my bank with account
number 14-255-2004/zib/t who died in a plane crash(Ethiopian Airline 961)
with other passengers abroad.

Since the death of this customer, I personally have watched with keen
interest to see the next-of-kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of US$15.5m (Fifteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars)which has been with my bank for a very long time.

On this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as the
next-of-kin as no one has come up to be the next-of-kin. In view of this, I
got your contact through my country's foreign trade mission after I was
convinced by providence that your name could be used as the next-of-kin.

The request of the foreigner as a next-of-kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian
cannot stand as the next-of-kin to a foreigner.

I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in
respect of providing a new bank account/support or we can use your old
account information, while the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit
your country for disbursement as I am almost due for retirement.

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to your
account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as a relation to the
deceased indicating your private telephone number, and fax number for easy
communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon the
receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or e-mail the application and
the next step to take.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any fear, as the whole required
arrangement has been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you.

Your respectfully,

Dr. Owezime Nwachinemere Young.
Reply to: dr_owezime@facileweb.com


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