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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: "christian willison" <chri00111@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:29:12 +0500
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED

Dear,


This mail will definitely be coming to you as a surprise, but I must crave
your indulgence to introduce myself to you.

I am Mr.Christian Willison,a Manager at Assurance Bank Plc.However I got
your contact through the International webdirectory. During our
ecentinvestigation,reconciliation and auditing of the bank's account my
department discovered adormant account with a huge amount of Money Valued
$10,600,000.00 (TEN Million, six hundred thousand,dollars Only) that belongs
to One of our late Customer MR. Vincent Carlos,from
Beverwijk,Netherlands,who died with his family in a plane crash one years
ago. So the fund has been dormant in his account with my Bank without any
claim of the fund in our custody either from his Family or relation before
Our discovery to this development.

It is only a foreigner that can stand as a next of kin and it is upon this
discovery that I decided to contact you to collaborate with you to pull out
this dormant fund.In order to avert this negative development.
All I want you to do is to stand in as next of kin to Our late Customer so
that the fund willbe released and paid into your account as the
beneficiary?s next of kin now that the bank is still expecting a next of kin
or relative of the deceased, MR. Vincent Carlos.

I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country
as civil servants, we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and that
would eventuall raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer
since i still work in this bank,this is the actual reason why i required a
second party or fellow who will work with me forward claims as the next of
kin and also provide either an existingbank account or to set up a new Bank
a/c immediately to receive this fund, even an empty a/c can also serve for
this purpose.

However, on smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to
40% of the total fund, while 10% will be set aside to take care of expenses
on both sides that may arise during the time of transfer and also for
telephone bills,and the remaining 50% will be for me.
What I want from you is for you to act as the deceased next of kin. I have
in my possession, all the necessary Documents to successfully accomplish the
operation. Bear in mind that this proposal is 100% risk free.

Further Information will be given to you as soon as I receive your
positive response.

Best Regards,
Mr. Christian Willison

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