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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: Mark Lambert <kaywilliams_kay@yahoo.gr>
Reply-To: markprivatelambert@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:15:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: for your perusal


Dear Sir/Madam

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important usiness. Though, this medium (INTERNET) has been greatly abused but I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and it should be treated as such.

My name is MARK LAMBERT, I work as the operational manager in account management section in charge of credit and foreign bills of ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant domiciliary account with a Balance of huge amount. The account holder[The deceased] was believed to be incharge of Former Iraq President,Saddam Hussein secret (CRUDE OIL TRANSACTION) in UK before his death. On further discreet investigation, I also discovered that the account holder has died long ago with his family on a fatal Auto- Accident leaving no beneficiary to the account and no other person knows about this account.

I am in close contact with the manager of the bank here who is my partner and he is willing to approve the transfer to any reliable and trustworthy foreigner with foreign bank account because the former operator of the a/c is a foreigner. I am certainly sure that he has no writen or oral WILL attached to the account ,no beneficiary and nobody will come again for the claim of this money. It is only a foreigner who can claim this money with legal claims to the account holder which I will provide to you if you are interested, therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction. This money will remain useless in this dormant account if I did not transfer the fund out to a foreign account.

I will provide the necessary information and documents needed in order to claim this money. I only need your cooperation as a foreigner to provide your safe bank account information even if it is empty.

At the conclussion of this transaction, you are to provide the following informations:

(a) Your expected Compensation in percentage of capital/Income derived from Total Invested capital.

(b) Annual percentage tax on capital income in your country.

(c) Inflation rate in your country.

Best Regards,

Mark Lambert



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