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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: "JOHN ASHER" <jhasher_06@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: asher1_jh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:43:05 +0100
Subject: GET BACK TO ME:

From The Desk Of John Asher
Access Bank
Senior Manager
Lagos Nigeria.
Email: john_asher1@hotmail.com

I am John Asher, Senior Manager with Access Bank Plc,Lagos, Nigeria. I have
an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that should be
handled with extreme confidentiality On January 31 2000, a Foreign
Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation Late Mr.
Morris Thompson by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve
calendar months valued at US$255M Twenty five Hundred United States
Dollars Only) in my Bank.

Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank
policy to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month we sent a
reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation that Late Mr. Morris Thompson, died
from 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.

On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will
and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made
further investigations and discovered that Late Mr. Morris Thompson did not
declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including
his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$25.5M has been
carefully moved out of my bank to a Financial and Security Company in Europe
for safekeeping. No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to
the Law of my country, at the expiration of 7 years the money will revert to
the ownership of the State (Government) if
nobody applies to claim the fund.

This prompted i to contact you. We want to front you as the next of kin of
our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of
US$25.5M U.S Dollars that is presently in a Financial and Security Company
in Europe. I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own
and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim
the money in the Financial and Security Company in Europe.

I have unanimously agreed that 35% of the entire sum would be for you if you
agree to take part in this profitable transaction,60% for me while the
remaining 15% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred
during the course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has been
claimed and lodged in your account. In the event that you are genuinely
interested in the transaction, the following information would be needed
from you to expedite action.

1) Your Full Name.
2) Your Residential or Company Address.
3) Age/Sex
4) Your Private Mobile, Telephone and Fax numbers where you can be reached
at all time because this transaction entails constant communication.The
transaction is 100% legal and totally free of risks as all modalities has
been perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the
transaction.

If you are interested, send the requested information via
email.

God Bless,
John Asher

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