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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: "henry" <hwisdom@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:48:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: HOW IS LIFE




















HENRY WISDOM

Email-henrywisdom70@myway.com

BUSINESS PROPOSAL / CONFIDENTIALMay I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you by an informal letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this magnitude

should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between youand us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of thenature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with theresponsibilities and functions of both parties and appropriate shares accordingly. But asa result of the urgency of this operation, I have decided to contact you byE-mail to hear from you first before planning on the next line of actionMy Name is Henry wisdom,I am a vault Manager with a security company herein EUROPE. This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy willbe successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before thebeginning of the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of a consignment wasmade here in our company by the late son of the former president of IraqSaddam Huesein Mr, Qusai Hussein who was recently killed by the AmericanSoldiers in Iraq.Ouasai Hussein made this deposit personally and no one in my office at thismoment knows that
this consignment belongs to him only me and my friend whois the Computer Lodgment officer in our company. We have tried toinvestigate the content of this box and found out that the consignment contains moneyand in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five Million dollars), deposited as Family Treasure. We have therefore decided to find a way to take away this consignment from our office and move the money out.We are willing to offer you 40% of the total sum,and 5% for invetsments in your country while the rest will be kept for us.Hence we are looking for a trustworthy person internationally who will comeforward to claim this consignment.I have to make necessary arrangements for the change of ownership of thisconsignment to anybody name who is willing to work with us within 10 workingdays of receipt of the information.All we need from you, is to change the consignment ownership on your name so that no one in our office will ever know what is going on and move the consignment
away from here to any of our company affiliate to any other part of Europe where it will be easy for you to claimthe items. If this proposal meets your interest please get back to meimmediately in my alternative email Address(henrywisdom70@myway.com) by giving me yourtelephone numbers to enable me give to you further details on how we haveplanned to carry this operation smoothly. As soon as I receive yourresponse,I will acquint you with further details regarding the transactionyour urgent response awaited.

Yours faithfully

Mr Henry Wisdom

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