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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: dr hiki <dr_hiki2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <dr_hiki1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:26:15 +0000
Subject: SECURITY BUSINESS CALL ME +226-76-650-214



Dear friend,
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your address through a local Business directory on the web.I must apologize for taking some of your valuable time to explain a proposal that I believe will be of utmost benefit to us. I am manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of a bank. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $25,600 000.00 USD(Twentyfive Million Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars)in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash on monday 31/07/2000 in paris.
Since the bank got information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release the fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim and our banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after five years,such money will be moved into the banking treasurer as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin. 25% of the total money will be for you as a foreign partner while 5% will be set asite to cover any expenses that might be incured during the process of transfering the fund to your nominated bank account.
If you're willing to handle this deal with me kind get back to me with your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication/your personal picture to enable me know whom i'm dealling with.I will send to you the application form which you wil apply directly to the bank.
Note:I demand the hightest trust from you to keep this business strictly confidential for security reasons as you may know that the bank don't know that i am the one who contacted you to stand for this claim. Best regards, dr hiki
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