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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr David Perkins"<hopp3@myway.com>
Reply-To: mrdavid_perkins01@walla.com
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 21:42:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: KINDLY GET BACK TO ME










From Mr David PerkinsP.O.Box 3038,57Victoria StreetLondon sw1h,London. I feel obliged writing this mail to you. I am not quite exposed to foreign business and friends hence i write to you with hope and trust that you will welcome my mail without being bias and that you will be trust worthy to me.I am Mr David Perkins from London. I want to seek your assistance after my discovery during auditing in my bank as am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of NATWEST BANK PLC. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of £12.5 million pounds in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr Morris Thompson who died along with his entire family in Alaska Plane crash on February 4th 2000. View this website for verification http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/.Since his death, we have been expecting his next of kin 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 and financial policies but unfortunately all the efforts proved abortive. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my department to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bills. I have concluded that at the conclusion of this business,you will be offer 25% of the total amount while 60% will be for me and the rest of 15% will be for any expensess both party will incure in the process of transacting this businessDo not view this as being illegal but an opportunity for us to help enrich our hope in life instead of the bank converting this much money to the security funds. You should not nurse any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the smooth transfer of these
funds and your acceptance is what will crown this effort. Reply through this email address mrdavid_perkins02@yahoo.comRemain blessed,Mr David Perkins=======================================================================This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.



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