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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: mark richard <mark_77richard@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Thank you very much for your response(Urgent Reponse Needed)


Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME,

I am very sorry for the lateness in response, as I have been very busy trying to arrange the process and making sure that every thing is in order. However, I also thought you ignored the reality of realizing this fund into your account. In any case, you have to trust on this and leave the rest for God to do.

I want to use this media to reiterate again on the facts of the inconsequential practice during the transferring of your fund from Ivory Coast by the corrupt officials of certain Western African banks. With due respect sir, I really regret the inconvenience and on behalf of the general Western African good people, I cordially apologize. But hereby assuring you that your fund (s) will be transferred to you via Investment Banking Trust Company (IBTC) to your banking coordinate to be nominated.

To this end, having noted the contents of my mail, I further consider it essential to bring to your kind knowledge that, to achieve your payment hitch free and without further hullage, it must pass through the government authorize measure, all this to make or bring to comfy your out standing payment. In this case, the transferring bank upon successful scrutiny of your record and having fulfilled all the customer obligation will transfer your fund (s).

On the process to achieve perfect payment, you will need to gathered your clearance from the authorities in concern, like office of the finance ministry, authoritative order from the office of the
Presidency. However, we have considered it good to give you a service of our accredited lawyer free of charge to assist you in the pursuance of the aforementioned clearance. Based on this, we would want you to contact this lawyer with the below contact details.

Bar Kelvin Mathias
Phone +234 80 503 924 90
Email him at kmassociates9@excite.com

Finally, it will be my pleasure to assure you once again on the veracity of our willingness to make sure your payment with the federal government of Nigeria is done within the official time frame. Be you known that you will be required to contact the above person as proxy to go for you.

Your urgent response will be highly welcomed.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Mark Richard.



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