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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: "Dr.Anthony Charles Shepherd" <dranthonycharles06@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drshepherdc@netscape.net
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 20:16:25 +0200
Subject: FROM DR.SHEPHERD!!


Dear Friend,
My Name is Dr.Anthony Shepherd From Harlsden, North West London , here in
England.
I work for Lioyds Tsb Bank London. I am writing following an opportunity in
my office that will be of an immense benefit to both of us. In my department
we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5million USA Dollars (Ten million five
hundred thousand Usa Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers Late 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.

The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geograpgical nature of
where you live, particularly due to the sensivity of the transaction.and the
confidentiality herein.
Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the
claim but nobody has done that.I personall y has been unsuccessful in
locating the relatives for 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you
as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds
of this account valued at 10.5Million Dollars can be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to
you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to back
up this claim we are making. Hence you are not expected to pay any cent here
. All i need is to fill in your names to the ducuments and legalise it in
the court here to prove you as the legitimate beneficiary. while we have
made arrangements with Diplomatic Envoy in service to move the money
through diplomatic process to your country with all the necessary papers to
enhance depositing the money into a bank in your country.



All I require now is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to
enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law. Please, provide me the following: as we have 5 days to
run it through. this is very very URGENT PLEASE.

1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number
3. Your Contact Address.

Kindly forward the above required details to this email address:
drshepherdc@netscape.net



Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.



Best regards,



Dr.Shepherd

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