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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: andres antonio <antonio_andres55@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:51:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Antonio Andres


Dear Singh
Thanks for your reply to my mails, I have read your mail and have decided to proceed with you in this pending transaction which has a lot of meaning to my life.It must intrest you to know that, what I actually expect from you as a partner, will be total confidence and trust, by this I am only saying that we should be able to handle this trusthing and believing in each other, without any evil mind from either of us.
Like you demanded that I should explain more about how we are to proceed with this transaction in your mail, and now that I am certain about your confidence, I hope to shed more light into how we proceed from here as regards this business.
A) Like I mentioned to you, that all modalities which will enhance a hitch free transaction have been carefully worked out before I ever thought of consulting you partaining to this business, one of such plans that I have resolved that we shall have to implore is to engage the service of an Incubadoras trust accreditted lawyer, it will be the duty of the lawyer we shall engage his service to handle the legal documentations for us as regards this business.
B) It will be the duty of this lawyer whose service we are to engage to perfect the legal documentations for us like, it will be the duty of the lawyer to change the name of the former depositor to your name as the next of kin or beneficiary of this fund, it will also be the duty of the lawyer, to file an official payment application on your behalf to Incubadoras trust inc, demanding that the whole money should be paid into the account you shall norminate as the beneficiary of the said money.
C) Like I have told you before, that I have the most needed or vital information as regards this deposit, and this information is the {SECURITY CODE OF DEPOSIT} I must assure you that I am the only person who have this security code of deposit, you shall be the second person by the time I send it to you.
D) You must also agree with me that, it will be sucidal or a great disaster if I Tony Andress, who works with Incubadoras trust begins to file official payment application to my company to pay the said money into your account, you will agree that, any of such steps or mistake will spoil the business and as well put me into a very big trouble, and this I do not pray happens, nor will I ever want to make such mistakes, this is the reason why I have planned that we use the service of an accreditted lawyer, and it will be your duty to be in communication with this lawyer, and this will be based on the previleged information I will pass on to you, I shall be going through the register which contains the name and contact email addresses of our companys accredited lawyers and I shall check for the best and most reliable lawyer's name and address, and I will send same to you, I will also contsruct the kind of letter you are to reach the lawyer with and send same to you so that
you can contact the lawyer based on that.
In the interim I will endeavour to call you as it will highly important that I call you so that I can hear your voice and you hear mine too.
Meanwhile I will advise that you try and send the following information to me in your next mail.
(i) Your full name and address.
(ii) The name and address of your company.
(iii) The name and address of the bank you will want us to use for this transaction.
The above information I will want for my own personal records, please try to understand me at this juncture as I have bestowed the whole of my life and hope into your hands and I am sure you will keep it like you promised.
Regards.
Tony Andress.

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