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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Dorphin Edward <dorpedward12@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: dorphinedwardm@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:42:56 +0100 (CET)
Subject: In Search of Next of Kin To Late Mr. Martin,


Dear Sir/Madam

Compliment of the day.

I got your contact in course of my inquiry to locate relations of my Deceased Friend who died in a car crash on the 13th February 2006. The reason for this is to inherit a Contracts Payment Deposits Account of $9.5 million of which the Deceased left in a Finance Firm.

Consequently, having gone through to your profile on Internet, I want you to please assist me to inherit the fund into your Account. This request emerged last week when the Finance Firm contacted me for the attention of my Deceases Friend (perhaps for one reason or the other they have tried to contact him and was unsuccessful).

However, thereupon I announced his death and protocols observed I was mandated (as the deceased's Friend) to provide the Next of Kin to inherit the Deposits or they will freeze it as” Unclaimed Deposit”. Unfortunately, and unknown to the Finance Firm, the Next of Kin was among the dead in the car crash.

But rather leaving the Deposits/Account frozen hence I seek your help to claim the fund into your Account as you share the same surname with my late friend and I have the required Information to execute the transaction under legal process.

Please contact me for further information and commencement of the transaction, and I need your full mailing address, your direct telephone number/Fax number, for this transaction to commence successfully.

Be informed that your compensation will be 50% of this fund, while 50% will be my share.

Please it is only trust and honesty to our self will make this claim to work out accordingly, and success will be our achievement at the end of this transaction.

Please get in touch with me by my email address (dorphinedwardm@hotmail.com) for the successful
transaction,

Yours faithfully,

Dorphin Edward.
Phone Number: +2348030555072


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