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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr.Casmir Poyh" <casmir_p11@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:21:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: About The Shell Development Company,Oil and Gas Engineering CoordinatorsWith Mr.John Singh


PRIVATE AND VERY URGENT.
Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME
With Kind Regard and Respect to your personality,I am Dr.Casmir Poyh,An account Manager of Commercial Excite Bank Plc.
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
I request that you do not feel disturbed as I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried since we have not meet before,
Well,i wish to commiserate with you for what you have gone through as you the world is a stage,and the bad people have made it very very impossible to know the right people, and I want to let you know this for sure,I am a civil servant and one who cannot handle this transaction alone without an assistance from somebody like you,I am sorry for the bad experienses you must have had, but I am telling you point blank that I am different,I want you to send me your telephone number so that I can communicate with you on phone in my own convenient time, as I am always busy in the office and will not like this issue discussed while in the office or at home when I am with my wife and kids, so I will like you to reconsider your stand and give me a trial, the Bible says, many are called but few are choosen, I know that you are a christian and prayerful, always pray with Psalm 25 and meditate on it and render me this all important help, all I am promising you is that you will
never travel to anywhere in the world for this trasnaction, but please consider your stand, still let me know what you think,meanwhile I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction and compersate you.

PROPOSITION;
I discovered an abandoned sum of $8.5m(Eight point five million Us Dollars) in an account that belonging to Mr.John Singh a nationality of your country[Singapore],who worked with Shell development company and also an Australian Oil and Gas Engineering coordinator here in West Africa,who died along with his entire family on November 6,2000,
Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply,after some months I sent a reminder and finally I discovered that our customer died from an automobile accident,On further investigation I found out that he died without making a WILL,and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore made further investigation to your Embassy here and discovered that our customer did not declare any person as his Kin or relations in his official documents,including his Bank Deposit paper-work in our Bank.
This sum of $8.5m(Eight point five million Us Dollars) is still sitting in our Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.No one will ever come forward to claim it According to Commercial Excite Banking Industries Laws,at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Bank if nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently,my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner and also sharing the same last name to stand in as the next of kin to our customer so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt Directors,I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that i will put the necessary documents that will put you in place as the next of kin to our customer to our bank,and any bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary next of kin.
The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 45% for me and 30% for you,and 15% to cover all expenses that will occur during the transfer and finally 10% will sent for charity and my share will still remain with you till my arrival in your country for our mutual sharing and investment in your country.
There is no risk at all as all the paper-work for this transaction because of my position as the Account Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately.Upon your response,I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality,and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:
1) To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt government officials
2)To make you the Next of Kin to the late customer and whom he has WILLED the said deposit before his death.Be rest assured that all the documents must be aprove by my office,and you must understand that our customer is a foreigner and local person can not lay hand into such claim that is the reason why iam contacting you in this deal.
3)To ensure that the deposited funds is transferred to your account as your INHERITANCE? So that the proceeds of this account valued at ($8.5m(Eight point five million Us Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can share this money.
4) To ensure that my own share of it is invested wisely in your country in any valueble area of investment.Bear in mind that the entire transaction will be risk- free and legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as your INHERITANCE.
Please If this proposition is acceptable by you,respond to me ASAP but if not acceptable by you,do not take advantage of it to betray me,
Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks and regards.
Dr.Casmir Poyh





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