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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: richarduke01@mocambique.net
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:44:05 +0200
Subject: on trust!!

Greetings
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this
letter is not a hoax mail and I
urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to
overseas account
($15,000.000 ) Fifteen million United States Dollars from a
prime Bank
here in Africa. I am Richard duke, presently promoted to
Auditor General in one of the Banks
here. During the course of our auditing last week, I
discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank
in 1996 and
since 1999 nobody has operated on this account again, after
going
through some old files in the records I discovered that the
owner of
the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is
floating and
if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for
nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Neal Walker an American
and a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska State,
who
unfortunately lost his life along with his wife in the plane
crash on
the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other
passengers
on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the
Chinese
Solid Minerals Corporation. Since his death nobody has come
forward to
make claims for the money; because they all died in the same
accident
himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). No
other person
knows about this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the
account is a secret account. I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because
this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but to
a
foreigner who has information about the account, which I
shall give to
you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you
with
believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business, you
are the first and the only person that I am contacting for
this
business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you
the next
step to take urgently.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for us while 10%
will be for
the expenses both parties may incurred during this
transaction. PLEASE,
TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

I look forward to your earliest
reply
Please reply to this mail box: richarduke01@yahoo.com
Best Regards,
Richard.


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