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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: "Mr.Jerry Canna" <canj010@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <executivejerry@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:13:24 -0400
Subject: Mr. Jerry Canna







From Mr. Canna Jerry.220 Balham High RoadCentral London W17 7BQ United Kingdom.Hello, I know that this mail will come to you out of the blue as a total surprise. Well, I have a business proposal which I know might interest you. I believe that you would be in a position to assist me in my bid to transfer the sum of (USD18.5M.) Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar into a foreign bank account. So study the following account carefully and reply urgently.I am Mr. Jerry Canna, an Auditor of a bank here in London.During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1993 and since 1997 nobody has operated on this account.After a lot of investigation I discovered that the owner of the bank account died without a beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not remit this money out it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of the account is Mr. Magnus Mundigen, a foreigner. He died since 1997 and the bank account has no beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody knows about this account or anything concerning it.So I want to grab this opportunity as it is no harm to nobody. I am here soliciting for your assistance as a Foreigner because the money can not be approved to a local person here. It can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign bank account because the money at sake is in U.S dollars and the former owner of the account is a foreigner. The management must approve this payment to you if you have the correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instructionof key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this project.with my influence and the position of the bank official, we can transfer this money to any foreigner’s reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival at your end for sharing. Note that an existing foreign bank account or an empty new one can serve to receive this money. The bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction immediately this money is into your nominated bank account. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 20% of the total amount, 75% will be for the bank official and I, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the course of this transaction.May I stop here. Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take. Send also your private phone and fax number including the full details of thebank account to used for the deposit.Best regards.Mr. Jerry Canna
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