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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: "BILL WILER" <bill_wiler12@msn.com>
Reply-To: topsecretb2k@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:05:46 +0000
Subject: BE THE NEXT OF KIN





BILLWILER&ASSOCIATE.
(BARRISTER&SOLICITOR)
244 Cannon Hill Lane
Raynes Park
London
SW20 9BY
Email: topsecretb2k@hotmail.com

My name is Barrister Bill Wiler of Billwiler and chambers ,a British
citizen during the last
auditing with a commercial Bank here in London where my late client
deposited the sum $4.5million who died during the terrorist attack of
Nov.11,2001 in the world trade centre. All efforts, which have been made to
reach his relatives for the past three years with the contact information
used in the deposit of the fund , have not yielded any positive result.

It was later gathered that my late client divorced his Wife and his only son
died in the September 11 bombing of the World Trade centre in New York the
same day. In the last Board Meeting held by the bank which I was invited,
the directors jointly decided that if I am on
able to produce any of his relatives or business associate the money will be
included in their annual profit for the year 2005.

Since I was the one who introduced my late client to the bank, I objected to
the decision and demanded that the fund remains floating in the treasury for
another one year to see if I could actually get the relatives of my late
client to claim the money. I will like you to help me in claiming the money
from the Bank here in London. I am willing to share the money with you on a
50% to you and 50% percent for me.

All I need you to do is to put up claims as next of kin, since there is a
similarity in your surname, I will send you all the documents to you. Once
this is done, the international payments under the diplomatic sector will
have the fund processed and Carried under
diplomatic immunity to your Address then we can meet to share the money
together.

Please I want you to keep this information very Confidential as the exposure
of this information might even lead to my life imprisonment or death. If
you are not willing to assist me, then I will beg you to still keep the
information secret.

Let me have your private Telephone number and your Home address, A copy of
your identification, so that I can reach you easily. I look forward to
hearing from you soon.
Thank you and Allah bless you.
Much Regard.

Bill Wiler


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