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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: Deckland Iwu <de_iwu014@live.com>
Reply-To: <deckland_iwu01@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:15:38 -0800
Subject: Dear Bianca



Firm/Company Name:
Barrister Deckland Iwu. Principal
Partner,
Deckland Iwu & Associates.
{Solicitor and
advocates}
Address: N0 24 Ogungbeso street
Coker Orile Iganmu
Direct
Telephone: +234 7031110184

Dear Bianca,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you. I got your contact from a computerize data following my
effort searching for a trustworthy person to assist me.

My name is Barrister Deckland Iwu I am the personal attorney to
late Mr Samson M. Bianca, who was awarded two different contracts with shell
Development Company here before his untimely demise On the 10th of June
2002.

My client was involved in an air disaster and unfortunately lost
their lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client
extended relatives, but I have been unsuccessful. After this several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet;
basically to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.


I contacted you to assist me in recovering the Fund valued at
{USD$ 8.2Million} Eight Million two hundred thousand United state Dollars,
executed contract fund that was approved in favor of my late client, Being the
proposed payment for the contract he executed with the shell Development Company
here before his untimely demise On the 10th of June 2002.

The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
the fund confiscated within the next three Weeks of official working days. Since
I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over four years now, I
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased , since you
bear similar surname that will prove you without doubt his relative, so that the
proceeds of this contract fund can be paid to you.

Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then
discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for the transfer. I have all necessary
information needed to back you up the claim. All I required from you is your
honesty and maximum co-operation to enable us see that this transaction goes
successfully. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Finally, your TELEPHONE/FAX numbers and your land mailling address
are urgently needed for easy communication on the commencement modalities of
this claim.

I await your feedback.

Best regard,

Barrister Deckland Iwu.
_________________________________________________________________
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