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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: dr antoney walker <dr_antoney@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:07:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT RESPONES


Dear Mr VICTIMNAME .
Greetings, many thanks for your urgent response, Now I have decided to explain to you more on this business for you to understand that we are not doing evil to any one. If we do not claim the fund from the bank before their deadline date, the management of the will confiscate the fund and share the fund among themselves.

This is what I am avoiding since I am here as the an insider to the bank with all the deposit documents. The almighty God will forever bless you for handling this business with me. This is the beginning of a wonderful union but it has come to be very necessary I educate you a bit on the next of kinship as attainable in the Banking Policy and Globally at large..


You see, next of kinship is not limited to relations of the deceased, nor is it confided to the circuit of parental relationship, rather it is by choice of the benefactor as regards to whom he wish to will it to (Beneficiary) either formally by write up, or in formally by secret

information disclosure to beneficiary be Him/Her business partner, relation, Kinsmen, or friends or well wishers, therefore by virtue of the above stated, you can claim to be the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same surname.


Hence on your acceptance to this, I will communicate to you the CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION of the deceased (Mr VICTIMNAME.M.usman .) as contained in the Bank File, So that on your readiness to forward application of claim to the bank, I will direct you and reveal to you the necessary information which you will enclose in your application to the Bank, therefore on

correspondence of Bank Confidential Information with what are contained in your application to them, they have no alternative other than to release the fund to you, believing that you are the Next of Kin originally, as he has no one for such Claim. the amount invole is $3,500millon dollars. which you will have %20


Please, with the above explanations, I believe you can now observe how safe it is for you to get involved in this mutual beneficial transaction, therefore I request you declare your interest immediately for the fund claim and I will transfer directives to you. The bank will ensure approval to your application to the bank and transfer this fund on your favor based on the information I will give you.


The part you are required to take in this transaction is risk free and it can never endanger your position in any way. first of all you will see the text of application which I will send to you in next mail, you will copy it and send to the bank, making reference to the account number and inquiring on how to have the fund into your account, which will be contained in the application.

After the bank must have received the application from you, in turn

they will have to send to you the bank questionnaire form, on the form you have to fill in the necessary information as required from the bank. The information supplied by you will be used to determine your true position as the bonfire next of kin to the deceased customer Mr MuhammedJ..usman . All the information required will be relayed to you by me, if the information supplied to
the bank are genuine, then the bank will sign the approval for the release and transfer of the fund to your given account.

Do not worry about the explanations to give to the IRS over this fund as I will procure legal documents in your name from the Ecowas high court of justice for your legal back up within and outside Ecowas community.Afterall the money in question is not huge enough for them to encroach into.Do not worry Madam I am bank and allmodalities to transfer the fund to your provided account have been putting in place.


I am now drafting the text of application which you will send to the bank. So I will send it to you as soon as i hear (reply) from you. Please i want you to be fast because time is not on our side so that before two weeks everything will be over.

Please kindly call me on this my Private telephone number +233-243-545-409. immediately you get this mail for me to instruct my secretary to prepare the specimen application form for claim to you to fill and forward to the bank.
Awaits your urgent response to enable me to send to you a text of application which you will send to the bank.

Best Regards,

Mr.Antoney.


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