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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 Blair <dablair073@live.com>
Reply-To: <davidblair007@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:41:52 +0200
Subject: From: Mr. David Blair.



From: Mr. David Blair.47 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4AY Cell No:+447045768621Via bE-mail: dablair2207@yahoo.co.uk

Hello,

I know that This letter might surprise you because,we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one day that you get know somebody either in physical or through correspondence.

I want to transfer (36,000.000.00 GBP) Thirty Six Million British Sterlling Pounds from a Prime Bank here in London to an oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for unward investment.You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future. I am the personal account officer to the great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of the top banks here in london. if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of the company.

My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Great Britian. The amount in this account is 36Million British Sterlling Pounds. As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.There is no risk in this business. With my position and my personal contact with the manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account which I will provide for you.

REQUESTED INFORMATION:
Full Name: .........Company Name: ........Company business address:...... Office Phone and fax: Mobile Phone: Copy of your International Passport: .Your bank account informations where the funds will be transferred into.

If you have any question,feel free to contact me on via E-mail. So you should provide me with your correct account details and your phone numbers, where you will like the fund to be transferred or you can set up a new account for the transfer even an empty account is ok. Contact me urgently via email dablair2207@yahoo.co.uk) for further details.

Thanks. Yours Faithfully,

Mr.David Blair.Via : E-mail: dablair2207@yahoo.co.uk
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