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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: Eric Huge <eric_huge1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: marktotman@reply.hu
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:46:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Please, kindly reply


Kindly attend,

I am miss Joy Huge, 20years of age, with my brother Prince Huge,17 years. We are the children of Late Mr and Mrs Eric Huge. Our father was a wealthy Cocoa Merchant here in England. He was poisoned to death by his Business Associates on one of their outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies, during the child birth of my younger brother Prince.

Before the death of our father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here in London, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of 11 million Five hundred thousand United Kingdom Pounds Sterling(11.5million) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big bank here in London. He told us that he used my brothers name (Prince Huge) as the next of Kin in depositing the money.

He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer or any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,United Kingdom) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money.We have since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after our education carrier here. But, the business associates of my Father are serious after our life as to seat on the fund. As I write you now, we have relocated to a small city, within the Country for survival.

For this ugly development, we have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that. We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money into your bank account.

(2) if the money is tranfer to you we can share it 75%/for me and 25% for you.
We will use our money to invest in your Country with under your supervision and guardian.

As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, we will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as we want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving us information on when the transfer will be over. We shall also send our pictures to you and shall also need yours too.

No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed our Daddy are very much after us.

Thanks and God bless you .

Joy & prince Huge.

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