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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: "Private" <way2005in@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: Your email


Dear amarjit, Thank you for your mail. We have no much time to waste, as this transaction required urgency and it is confidential. I knew you had gone through my proposal and knew the urgency it required. I am contacting you totally as a stranger because I do not know you before. The fund for transfer to your account does not originate from drug, terrorist, and money laundry also not criminally related. As efficient, strong and reliable as this transaction {INHERITANCE}, Inheritance is not a crime all over the World, a day old baby can inherit as you know even a deaf &amp; dump and the blind can as well Inherit. Because they cannot talk nor even read but Documents and only documents will talk and say for them. The deceased Scott Kloeck-Jenson is a U.S citizen who died with all the members of his family in a car accident. Visit the following website for further detail: http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/inmemoriam.html. Until his death he was the Manager of DIAMOND KLOECK [PTY]
S.A. His company DIAMOND KLOECK was a South Africa based company that specialized in diamond, gold and petroleum mining in Africa and Asia. He held this account with, STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA and the account has been dormant since his death. Already a perfect arrangement is in place, plan for a smooth and successful transfer of the fund to any safe account, which you are to nominate. If you are serious and capable of handling a business of this magnitude send me the following information in other to process the payment immediately to your account. You can open a new empty account for the transfer. Your Bank name:…………………………Bank Address:……………………………………Bank Account Number:……………………………… The transfer will be done in two installments. On receipt of your correct account detail for the transfer, I will apply for the transfer of 20,000,000 USD first. I will order for the transfer of the remaining balance of 20,209,000 million USD to your account only after the proper sharing of
the first transfer without any disappointment from your side. I stated in my letter of proposal that the total sum I want to transfer to your account is 41,209,000 million USD. At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will take 25% of the total transfer sum, 70% will be for me and my partner while 5% will be set aside for transfer expenses both of us might incurred during the transfer process. Urgency is indeed needed. Waiting to hear from you ASAP. Regards,Barrister Greg Smith.

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