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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: DAVID IKE <da_ike033@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <david_ike111@yahoo.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:51:31 +0100
Subject: I WANT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER,



DAVID IKE& ASSOCIATES 15 MEDICAL ROAD,IKEJA. LAGOS-NIGERIA TEL; 234 80 5812 7242 DEAR SIR/MADAM
I WANT TO MAKE THIS APPEAL WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY FACTS OR OPINION EXPRESSED BY ME ARE GIVING IN CONFIDENCE AND SOLELY FOR YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND USE.

I am BARR.DAVID IKE the Attorney to MR MORRIS THOMPSOM who died along with his wife and only daughter in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight number 261 which crashed on 31 January, 2000. You can read more about the crash on visiting bellow Web site .http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

MR MORRIS THOMPSOM is an American and great industrialist and a resident of Alaska who owns several multi companies in the states and abraod,upon the death of my client, he left the sum of $10.5 million( ten million five hundred thousand us dollars) with account number 14-2558-5976 with a bank which i will not dispose the identity yet of the bank till i hear from you a positive response.It is therefore upon this that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and for the bank to release the fund ($10.5m) to you.I want to make You the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it after my years of search and I don't want this fund to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The fund has now stayed more than four years and the bank is preparing the documentS to transfer the fund to their treasury as unclaim fund but i have writing to the bank to give me more time because i have find the NEXT OF KIN. It will be between me and you only that will know that you are not the next of kin or related to my late client. This request of foreigner as next of kin in this transaction is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and as it stands i cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

In appreciation of your assistance, I am offering you 40% of the total sum. 10% for contingencies (cost of transfer/other charges) likely to be incurred during the course of the transaction, while the remaining 50% is for me.Upon receipt of your reply.I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application which you will complete and forward to the bank asking for this fund to be transfer to you as the next of kin to MR MORRIS THOMPSON. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.For easy communication i will like you to give me your phone number so that i can call you for more explaination.

PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY AND ENSURE THAT YOU DISPLAYED HONESTY AS A PARTNER TO ME.MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL IS: david_ike111@yahoo.co.nz
Yours Faithfully,

BARR.DAVID IKE

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