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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: CPolk37276@aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:30:37 EDT
Subject: I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU FOR A LONG TIME


>From The Desk Of Dr.Albert David.
Auditing Unit,Citizens Bank (Nig) Plc.
199 Adeola Odeku,V/Island,
Lagos,Nigeria.

Dear Respectable One,

My name is Dr.Albert David. I work with the Citizens Bank
(Nig) Plc. bill and exchange of the foreign remittance
department. I am the personal Accountant to late
Engr.(Newton) a National of your country, who was a
contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES
VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS.

Here in after shall be referred to as my client On 26th
December 2003,my client, his wife, and their three children
were involved in the Benin plane crash, and the whole family
died in this fatal air crash on 26th December 2003 Since
then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate
any of my clients extended Relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.

Here is the air crash website on cnn:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to get
in touch with the consul-General of your Embassy, In the
person of Mr. Brian Brown, to locate any member of my late
client family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where
these huge deposits were lodged, particularly the CITIZENS
BANK (NIG.) PLC. Where the deceased had an account Valued at
($32 million u s dollars) has issued me a notice to provide
the next of kin. Or have the account confiscated within the
next ten official working days.

On further investigation,I found out that:-

(A) He has no other living declared relative

(B) He had died intestate (without making a will)

(c) He was into Real Estate Venture (Realtor)

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
till date, I seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so
that the proceeds of this account valued at ($32 million US
Dollars) can be paid to you and then you and me Can share
the money.40% to me and 40% to you and 10% for any charity
organization in your country. While 10% for unforeseen
bottlenecks we might incur in this transaction and this will
be after tax is deductted by the (IRS) in your country. An
attorney will be contracted to help us revalidate and
notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be
carefully worked out from my table and I will perfect every
documents to be in accordance with the banking laws and
guidlines hence you have nothing to worry about for I am
assuring you a 100% risk free transaction.

On your soonest reply,I will tell you all you need to know
about the money and operational method we can use to effect
remittance into your account for our mutual benefit.Also
include your full name,address and phone number.

I am looking forward for your prompt response.

Thank you very much and God bless.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr.Albert David.


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