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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: "DR JOHNSON MICHEAL" <drjohnson.mich15@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: drjohnson_mich05@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:40:05 +0100
Subject: FROM DR JOHNSON


From:Dr.Johnson Michael
Tel:+447045757003
I am Dr.Johnson Michael From Harlsden, North West London , here in
England. I
work for Natwest Bank Corporation London. I am writing you from my
office tha
t will be of an imense benefit to both of us. In my department,being
the assis
tant manager (Greater London Regional Office), I discovered an
abandoned sum o
f $12.5 million USA Dollars (Twelve million five hundred thousand Usa
Dollars)
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late
Mr.Thompson M
orrison American citizen who unfortunately lost his life in the plane
crash o
f Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000,
including his w
ife and only daughter.
The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geograpgical nature
of wher
e you live, particularly due to the sensivity of the transaction.and
the confi
dentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of the
relatives to c
ome-up for the claim but nobody has done that.I personally has been
unsuccessf
ul in locating the relatives for 2 years now, I seek your consent to
present y
ou as the next of kin /Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the
proceeds o
f this account valued at 12.5 Million Dollars can be paid to you.
This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages,60% to me and
40% to y
ou. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to
back up t
his claim we are making. All i need is to fill in your names to the
ducuments
and legalise it in the court here to prove you as the legitimate
beneficiary.
All I require now is your honest Co-operation,Confidentiality and Trust
to ena
ble us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be
execute
d under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please,provide me the following: as we have 5 days to run it through.
this i
s very very URGENT PLEASE.
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number
3. Your Contact Address.
Having gone through a methodical search, I decided to contact you
hoping that
you will find this proposal interesting. Please on your confirmation of
this m
essage and indicating your interest will furnish you with more
information. En
deavor to let me know your decision rather than keep me waiting.
Reply on this email:drjohnson_mich05@hotmail.com<email%3Adrjohnson_mich05@hotmail.com>
Regards,
Dr.Johnson Michael
Tel:+447045757003

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