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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. Solomon Clarke" <mrclarkes203@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrclarkes@voila.fr>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 03:32:44 +0000
Subject: Please Reply Immediately.........From Mr. Solomon Clarke.



UBS AG Potlatch8098 ZurichSwitzerland. Hello. Please do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I am Mr. Solomon Clarke an investment consultant working with Bank Of Switzerland, UBS AG. at their offshore department Zurich Switzerland . I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET,and will give me a strong assurance that you will never let me down. During our periodic auditing, one of our accounts witholding the balance of 18,000,000 (eighteen Million US Dollars) has been dormant. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a Foreigner from your country who died long time ago. Since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money as he has no family Member who is aware of the existence of either the account nor the Funds. Information from the National Immigration also states that he was single on enterance into the country. I have confidentially discussed this issue with one of the top officials in the bank and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of the deceased and have the funds released to you after due processes have been followed. You will be getting 30% as commission for your effort while the remaining 65% goes to my self and other officials involved in the bussiness, 5% are set aside to defray any expenses incured by both parties. I am constrained to issue more details about this business until your response is received. If you are not familiar with my Bank profile, please take a moment of your schedules to read about my Bank website; www.ubs.com and I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible once you will promise never to let me down until this is concluded successfully. At this juncture I wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal. I have a 9-year old daughter who has leukemia, disease of the blood, and she needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be done in any good children hospital in your country. Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job and bring my family to start a new life in your country. I have worked for this bank for so many years yet I have nothing to show for it, I really need your assistance to secure this fund as soon as possible. This will simply be a bank to bank transfer and there is practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law. Reply through my most private email address <mrclarkes@voila.fr> and remember to send alongside your private mobile number where i can reach you for more heart to heart discussion. Thank you for your time and attention and waiting for your prompt response and details of the account. Warmest regards.Mr. Solomon Clarke. Chief investment Consultant .UBS AG Potlatch8098 ZurichSwitzerland

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