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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: Morgan Smith <morsmith2@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: morgannatwest@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:57:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From: Sir. morgan.Smith


From: Sir. morgan.Smith
NatWest Bank of London
65,Aldwych London
WC2B 4EJ United Kingdom.

Compliment Of The Day,

I am a staff of NatWest Bank London. I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 36,000,000.00 Pounds (Thirty Six Million Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relative to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasure as unclaimed bill.

The amount involved is (Pounds 136M) One hundred and Thirty Six million Pounds, I only want to first transfer $36,000.000[Thirty Six million Pounds from this money into a safe account before the rest.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after five years the money will be transferred into banking treasure as unclaimed funds. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.This transaction is confidential and risk free.if you are ready to work with us.

Once you send me the requested information needed, I will initiate the processing of the transfer and in about 5 working days the money will be in your nominated bank account for us to share in the ratio.This transaction is guaranteed to succeed without any problem.I will give you my complete Details, including phone/ fax etc and any further clarifications you may require. We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.

Best regards,
Sir. morgan.Smith
Natwest Bank of London
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