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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. James Hord" <wwd.ppk2@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mr.jameshord@yahoo.com.my>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 03:54:40 +0000
Subject: CONSIDER AS A PROPOSAL.



C-20-6, Jalan Banyan,80000 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. Hello, RE: TRANSFER OF $3.7,000,000.00USDWe want to transfer ($3.7,000,000.00USD) three million, seven hundred thousand United States Dollars from a Bank here in Malaysia to oversea account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. My name is Mr. James Martin Hord, I was the personal account officer to a great late INDUSTRIALIST who has an account in one of a top prime bank here in Malaysia. The account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2006 without a written or oral WILL and since 2006 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let me down either now or in future. The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than three years without claim hence the money will be re-called to the government treasury as unclaimed after this long period of dormancy. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager/ceo of the company. My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me as well that he was single as at the point of his entry into (Kuala Lumpur) Malaysia. The total amount in this account is $3.7,000,000.00USD (Three Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the board of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me. There is no risk involved in this business, with my position and my personal contact with the admin manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. I am only contacting you as a foreigner as i stated before, because this money can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of the account, which I will provide to you. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 45% for you, 5% for any expenses incurred in this business and the remaining 50% for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I will then start to process the transfer documents of the fund to your account without further delay, contact me urgently for further detail. Yours sincere, Mr. James Hord.

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