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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: "HON. MARTING COLLINGS" <honmartin22@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <honmartin_stbnig@walla.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:46:18 +0100
Subject: ATTN; YOU INHERIANCE FUND



STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC.38 FENCHURCH STREET(LONDON UK). FROM THE DESK OF HONOURABLE. MARTIN COLLINGS.OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNT OFFICERFOREIGN OPERATION UNIT,STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC.(LONDON UK).Dear Sir/Ma, With compliments and respect please I beg your pardon for this unsolicited nature, it was out of desperation and Curiosity that made me to contact you, to introduce myself.I am Hon. Martin Collings, an accountant with Standard Trust Bank London (UK). I am an accountant to a foreigner who bears the same name with you, a national of United States of America, who is in supply and contract execution with Mekon Associates Company here in LONDON.is referred to as my trusted client. My client was involved in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31st 2000, and took lives of innocent souls and unfortunately over 88 peoples lost their lives and my client was involved. You can vistit this website for more verification. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list And several enquires to locate any of my late client relatives/next of kin was to no avail. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by our customer before they get liquidated or declared unserviceable by the bank, the total amount left behind by the demised his account valued precisely to be USD19.million. (Ninteen Million United State Dollars).However, this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such. I also guarantee you that this transaction is hitch free from all negative consequences. The bank will be willing to release these funds to you, since I have some of the vital documents to back it up and shall implore the services of an attorney to handle all the legal aspect of it.All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, because the Foreign Operation Manager Mr. Mark Maxwell is working with me for this. He has given me his full support to contact you so that we can retrieve this money for our mutual benefit.NOTE: this transaction dose not matter your country.send to me the following information if you are honest, reliable and interested for this transaction. 1} FULL NAME.....2} YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS.....3} AGE AND OCCUPATION......4} DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER..... I await your soonest response.Thanks.Yours Sincerely,Hon. Martin Collings.Account Officer Foreign Operations Units
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