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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: Issa Adams <issaad_219@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <issa_adams1@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:00:21 -0400
Subject: Dear McCrory



Mr Issa Adams, 13 Lewisham High Rd.London SE13 5TYUnited Kingdon. Dear McCrory I am Mr Issa Adams,in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance Department with a Finance House in london and also the personal account officer of Late Mr. Melvin McCrory There have been an unclaimed sum of $US10.5Million ( Ten Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) deposit belonging to Late Mr. Melvin McCrory from Your country. He was a petroleum/gas consultant/contactor with the Iraq National Petroleum Corporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip? He died with his wife on board the Swissair Flight 111, which crashed into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia in September 2nd 1998, killing 229 people on board. See link below: http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/ Since we got information about his death.I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money.Unfortunately, neither the family nor the relation has appeared to claim this money, since we cannot release it unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our guidelines indicate that if such money remained unclaimed for a period of nine (9) years, it would be transferred into the Finance House Treasury as unclaimed fund. I have decided to transfer this money to you as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy collection since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money transferred into the government account as unclaimed debt. I have decided to give you 50% of the total sum. There is no risk involved, because I will use my position in the Finance House to present you as the next of kin to the fund. Do send me an immediate mail indicating your willingness to assist in actualising this transaction. Respectfully,Mr Issa AdamsPhone:+44 702 401 7227
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