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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: "Edward Be" <bedwd10@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:45:04 +0000
Subject: To you pls. Maikel Sandra


Dear friend,

I am Mr.Edward Ben.I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Morris Thompson an
American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and
only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this

website.http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Since then I have made several enquiries to his Embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has also proved successful.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 for your assistance.

I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind
by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
finance company where this huge deposits were lodged.

Conseqently,The security financial firm issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen
official working days. since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the
relatives for over 3 years now I seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin of the deceased since you are not his relative but as a
foreigner so that the proceeds of this account valued at $USD10.5 million
Dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money. 60% to
me and 35% to you,while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government
may require.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim
we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me for more details through my private email
address below to enable us discuss further and send me your fax and
telephone number.


Best regards,
Mr.Edward Ben.ESQ.

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