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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: Sullivan Sandy <s_sull032@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: s_sull023@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:14:01 +0800 (CST)
Subject: OK ????


Dear Friend, I am Mr.Sandy Sullivan , Auditor General Natwest Bank Group UK, and I live
in the United Kingdom. I am writing you this mail as an opportunity in my
office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of £10.5 million
British Pounds Sterling Ten million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris
Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31st 2000,Including his
wife and only daughter. You will read more about the crash on visiting this
site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of
kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because I cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only Daughter
died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the Knowledge of
this fund behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that in my department so now decided to
make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and I do not want this money to go back into
Government treasury as unclaimed Funds.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained
after some time the money will be transferred into banking treasury.
I agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while
the balance will be for me. I will disburse the funds according to the
percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please
be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.

Note: that this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail you should contact me by email. All necessary arrangement
for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalized. We will
discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
If you are interested in this project contact me for further Directives,
Thank you very much and God Bless you.
Best regards,

Mr. Sandy Sullivan.



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