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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. Richard Williams" <richard01_williams@myway.com>
Reply-To: richard01_williams@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:45:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: YOUR RESPONSE IS VERY IMPORTANT










YOUR RESPONSE IS VERY IMPORTANT My dear Partner, My name is Mr. Richard Williams. Am sure that my letter will come to you by surprise because we have not met before, but I want you to understand that it takes only a day to know some one either physically or by correspondence. I got your email contact through my personal search through the internet and then I decided to contact you for us to execute a financial transaction that requires trust and confidentiality, which shall benefit you and I at the end. There is a fund inheritance of my client in deposit with a Trusted Financial Institute before he was involved in a plane crash, which took lives of several number of people. This incident took place on the 6th day of December 1997 a huge transport plane, AN124 "Ruslan," crashed into the residential section of Irkutsk. Now I want you to stand as the next of kin to my late client as I have a very right as his Legal Adviser to will this inheritance to any foreigner as I or anyone
related to me cannot claim it as the rightful beneficiary, the funds in question is over $65,000,000.00 (Sixty Five Million United State Dollars Only). This will be claimed and transferred to your nominated bank account as soon as they receive the documents that prove you beneficiary. I will share the money with you 60% to 40% is for your assistance. This transaction is 100% risk free because none of the diseased relations knows about this money. I will provide you with all the information you will need to know before proceeding. I am given you full assurance that this money will be released to you as long as you give me full cooperation. I will give you more details about the transaction after your positive responds. Please send all your reply through this my private email address richard01_williams@yahoo.com Regards. Mr. Richard Williams


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