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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: Mathew wong <mthw_wong@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: more info re your unexpected letter


Attention : Fr Leoda Schermann



As previously informed you, I contacted you in this transaction for our mutual benefit and for a lasting business relationship with having made unsuccessful attempts upon my several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this deposited.

Let me go straight to explain more on the event that led to this before I expatiate on the project proper. Mr. Frank Nelson was a big customer of the finance institution. He operated a coded account with them before he died as the result of a heart-related condition on the 11th of Nov.2001,which was due to the death of all the members of his family in the Gulf Air Flight crashes in Persian Gulf near Aired August 23,2000 .

You must understand that in the finance institution opportunities like this are common but not heard. People put their fund in financial institutions and some of these accounts are either coded or confidentially operated, therefore, when such people die what do you think that happens to these funds when nobody comes for their claims? Well, this is one of the numerous avenues funds are made within and amongst the financial institution management.

In fact, Mr. Frank Nelson was one of my best clients and I did not mastermind his death and I did not operate or manage his account. I did all I could to locate his real relatives and was unsuccessful.

Normally, when something like this happens in financial institution it is reported to the management. The Management can only wait for few years for a next of kin to show up without publishing it or making it public because false claimants will definitely show up.

Therefore, it is not published and the respective Finance institution only informs the customers attorney as the case may be and then only waits for the real heir to show up as the availability of such funds are expected to be in the late "customer's will" which would be the only source of knowledge of it by anybody who is entitled to such estate. So the finance institution gives few years for this and if no claimant comes forward then the Management sends the fund to the Debt Re-conversion Department and the account is closed. Now the question is, who runs the Debt Re-conversion Department and who is the Management? The answer is simple. The Chairman, Managing Director and Board Members. These are individuals and these funds are shared by them and nobody asks questions, period. In fact, these issues are not even discussed outside board meetings.

To explain myself properly, I am not a board member and of course, I am not part of the Management and I do not work with the finance institution .I am not rich, therefore, if I have this opportunity and throw it to the wolves, then I must be the most "foolish-man" that has ever lived. I have fully put everything in place and since this is an opportunity open to anybody, I do not see anything wrong in what I am doing as long as I am not hurting who should not be hurt. I can only tell you that it is just destiny that brought us together.

I am quite sure of what I am doing that is why I am committing myself in this project because I know what the catch is and it's worth, and that is why my life and entire career is involved in this transaction in making it a success . As a legal Practitioner and a member of Malaysian law association, the procedure of establishing the next of kin would be taken care of.


The truth remains that you are not the real relative of my late client, but for the fact that I have seen you as person who will not sit upon the fund when it have been transferred into your account. you can with my aid as his personal lawyer be approved by the finance institution as his next of kin because I have all the secret information that are contained in this security file jacket with the finance institution that will facilitate that. It is only myself that knows that you are not the real relative. Unfortunately my late client did not have any Will before his sudden death. Although he had earlier notified me of that in the near future.

It is therefore with absolute confidence that I wish to inform you more of the details of this transaction of great mutual benefit. Now be advised my friend that in line with my operational master plan for the success of this our transaction, what you are required to do now is to tender an application to the finance institution as next of kin to this deceased customer putting claim over his balance with them. This application will be written on your letter headed paper or otherwise, then write to the finance institution for immediate action and processing to start.

As soon as they receive this application, documentation for the claim will automatically start. It will be tendered to the Board of Directors of the finance institution for approval.

When the approval is obtained, you will be issued an approval letter, approving your application as the next of kin/sole beneficiary to the deceased. You will also notify the finance institution in your application that you wish your deceased cousin's fund inherited and transferred into your designated account as you will state in the application.

Please as you reply, let me have the following information which I will use to draft the claim application and also for documentations of the probate processes of this transaction.

The information's are:
1. Your full name as in international passport and passport number;
2. Your date of birth;
3. Your full contact address; (Home and office)
4. Your private telephone and fax numbers;
5. Marital status...............
6. Your Occupation and position (in relation to your job)
7. Your country of origin

Looking forward to hearing from you. As for further clarifications feel free to call me on my direct number +60132709184

Best Regards,
Mathew Wong Esq.

Leoda Schermann <schermannleoda72@mozartmail.info> wrote:

Hello there,

Pardon me but I think it is for sure not that you have emailed the right partner in me. Why me? May I ask for some proof?

In case there is any truth in what you are saying, then helpfully provide me the applicable documentary proofs.

My home situation is recently looking lately more rosy and I hope the same for you.

Fr Leoda Schermann

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