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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: "Robert Blanc" <robertblanc29@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:33:45 +0100
Subject: Vital Information of Late Sen. Paul Wellston, Reply.


Dear Friend,

How are you today and how about your lovely ones, hope you all are in good
health ? I know you must be surprise receiving this type of mail from me,
but relax, I will explain every bit of this to you and also introduce myself
to you. I am Mr. Robert Le Blanc, A UK Citizen, I am an accountant officer
here in the Nat west Bank London regional office, I have an urgent assistant
which I will want you to assist me in doing, I believe that when I do
explain everything to you, you will understand me very well. We have a late
customer named Sen. Paul Wellston who died in an airplane crash in 2002 with
his entire family members in the crash. may his soul rest in perfect peace.
and when he was alive, he deposited some fund amounted TWELVE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$12,500,000.00 USD) in our bank
here for a future investment, so, ever since his death with his family, no
one has ever showed up for this claims. and our bank is now earnestly
waiting for any of their relatives to come up for the claims, but I know
that no one will come up for this claims, due to no one was alive when the
plane crashed.

Now, I will want us to do this business together, I will present you as the
next of kin to our late customer so that the Nat west bank will transfer
this fund to your bank account in your country. According to the uk banking
policy it stipulates that any unclaimed nor unserviced account for a period
of 6 years shall be transferred into the banks treasury bag as an unclaimed
fund, which means the Nat west bank will inherit the fund without any
query's, I will like to present you as the cousin to our late customer, late
sen. Paul Wellston, so that this fund will be transferred to your bank
account in your country. the amount is $us12,500.000.00 USD that is twelve
million, five hundred thousand dollars only. and I have in my possession the
claiming documents that will be sent to the bank when they request for it,
that will make you the original beneficiary of this fund. for going to
assist in this, you will receive 40 % out of all this fund. while the
remaining will be mine as the originator of this business, But please keep
this between both of us.

Everything concerning this transaction will be done legally, there is
nothing to fear about, because no body knows you and nobody knows anyone as
his cousin, but the secret is one that comes with the right claiming
documents for it claims this fund, so I wouldn't want to loose this fund,
since I know every information about the owner. I will want you to read this
in the news and confirm it yourself. (
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/index.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/wellstone.quotes )

Late Sen. Paul Wellston was born on July 21, 1944, Arlington, Virginia Wife:
Sheila Ison Wellstone, Children: David, Marcia, Mark, so, none of them was
alive. so, I will like you to write me back urgently so that I will give you
the details you will need to know about this, as soon as we conclude by
knowing each other very well, then I will send you a text of application
which you will fill and send to the bank. why I wanted to do this is because
I was in the position to search for any of their relatives, which I have
done but all to no avail to find any of his relatives, that's why I am
contacting you for this...I believe that you will not betray me nor run away
with this money when transferred to your bank account, Just promise me in
your email that you will not betray me. and also tell me a little about
yourself so that I will trust you, send me your direct mobile number, you
country of residing...., I will be waiting to hear from you. reply Direct to
my private email address at ( robertblanc10@yahoo.com )

Regards,

Robert

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