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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: rex paul <rexpaul20@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:11:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME


FROM THE DESK OF REX PAUL
Department:senior manager accounts/audit
NATWEST BANK KENT LONDON.

ATTENTION :PLEASE I DO NOT WISH TO EMBARRASS YOU IN ANY WAY.

Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you.

Although we never met before,but I have every reason to believe that
you are
a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I got your E-
mail
address through internet my online network, while searching for a
reliable
and reputable person to handle this transaction.

I am a senior manager accounts/audit in NATWEST BANK KENT LONDON . I am
writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense
benefit
to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
10.5million Euro(Ten million five hundred thousand Euro Only) 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.

You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got
during
my investigation;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
thedeceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I discovered 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 treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as
unclaimed funds and be left in the hands of selfish men that care only
for
them selves and that is what we do not want.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner,while
the balance will be for my colleagues and I. 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.

To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your
interest by a return e-mail and enclose the following information:

1. Full name
2: Your private telephone number and Fax number.
3. Occupation and Nationality.

Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.
As soon as you receive this mail contact me through my private e-mail
address(rex_paul2006@yahoo.com)

Please note that all the necessary arrangement for the smooth release
of
these funds to you has been finalised.

We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.

Best regards,
Rex paul


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