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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: "scoleptert20 ptert" <scoleptert24@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:10:37 +0200
Subject: Urgent/And Confidential

Urgent/And Confidential

Attn:
My name is Jan Peter Scole.
I work in a security company in Amsterdam the
Netherlands. I wish to solicit your collaboration in transfering the sum of
$12million united states Dollars.

SOURCE OF THE FUND

During the last quarter of 2006 one of our regular clients a vast business
tycoon, by name Mr.Spasov Raycho
from Macedonia but lived and established in South
Africa.On one occassion he visited our security company here in Holland to
deposit items he initialy claimed were family valuables.With my position as
the vault manager, he confided in me and declare that the package contains a
cash sum of $12million United States Dollars and i verified this.

He claimed to had disguise the cash as family items because he wanted to
save something to fall back on after concluding a divorce suite brought
aginst him by his only wife who does not have any child for him while the
marriage last. According to him, he already envisage that judgement will
swing to his wife favour. Touched by his story, i offered to assit him and
keep this top secret till further notice.

Unfortunaely, disaster struck Mr. Spasov Raycho died after a protracted
illness in January this year 2007 in South Africa.At the point of depositing
this money, he left no information on who his next of kin is because his
intention was to further dispatch this item in record time.During one of his
numerous visits to our company to fine tune the deal, he left with me his
complimentary business card and overleaf the card, i found your email
address and i felt you might have been one of his close business associates
while he lives.

Since there is no information on his next of kin to inherit the fund in
question, i am requesting you to review this proposal to emerge as the next
of kin to the late Spasov Raycho and with my collaboration, make legitimate
claim to this fund. I assure you that all documentations required to
facilitate the transfer of this money are readily at my disposal. .

If you agree to partake in this, I am offering a 50 50 % sharing terms. You
know, since i am still a bonifid employee of this company it will be
inappropriate for me to make claims to this fund and that is why i need you.
This transaction is risk free because the exercise begins and ends on my
desk as the vault manager i assure you.Please reply as soon as possible to
my private email address: xyoko5000@aim.com.

Regards,

Jan Peter Scole.

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