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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Abdullah Wazari" <mr.wazari4@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mr_wazari3@walla.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:58:42 -0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY

Dear Sir,
Complement of the day to you. I believe this most be a surprise seeing this mail coming your way, but I most crave your indulgence to introduce myself to you.
I am Mr. Abdullah wazari a manager at one of trusted Bank; however I got your contact through the international Web directory. During our recent investigation, reconciciliation and auditing of the Bank? account my department discovered that a dormant account with a huge amount of money in it valued $6,800,000.00(Six million, eight hundred thousand Dollars only) that belongs to one of our late customer, which you have the same surname with him , who with his family died in a plan crash one year ago. To this effect the account has been dormant since then without any claim from any person in the name of family, relative(s) or next of kin before our discovery after the annual auditing of the bank accounts.
As it stands now with the current development it is only a foreigner that can stand as the next of kin that is why I decided to contact you so that with your help and corporation, we can claim the money. I cant do this on my own because am still with the bank and I don't want to raise any eyebrow and to betray the trust I have build in my colleagues and the bank all this years and as an insider I cant front myself.
On a smooth conclusion of the transaction, you will be entitle to 40% of the total fund,10%gose for the expenses logistics and all other like telephones fax and mails and the last 50% will be for me.
All you have to do is stand as the next of kin to the deceased and don't forget I have in my possession all the needed documents to back you up all the way .Bear in mind that this transaction is 100% risk free, more details when I hear from you and know your position in the whole proposal.
Please get in touch with me through this email:mr_wazari4@walla.com


Best regard
Mr.Abdullah Wazari


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