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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: =?utf-8?q?Richard=20Crosby?= <ricrosby@ymail.com>
Reply-To: richcros01@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:49:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: LATE EDWARD ESTATES


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a:ricrosby@ymail.com



- Dear Sir/Madam, It is such a pleasure for me to contact you and with respect.I am Mr. Richard Crosby a South African citizen and financial consultant with a private finance and investment firm based here in South Africa, The firm has facilitated a lot of transactions for very high profile clients at home and abroad.From my enquiries, your profile on investments and acquisitions suits an investment opportunity and may turn out to be a good foundation on which we can build an effective and functional business relationship of particular interest presently, there is a client's account that I have had to administer for the past six years. Although the client is late, there are huge deposits he made with the Finance Firm that we can safely engage for investment funding before they are declared Unserviceable or reverted to the government treasury as unclaimed funds.My client died in very unfortunate circumstances there are no existing beneficiaries. It is my mandate as clients' financial consultant to facilitate the release of this fund to a verified beneficiary. I have decided to seek your assistance indenpendently and have you receive this fund on my behalf. All the legal requirements will be fulfilled to have you as a proven beneficiary of the claim. The sum is $17m (SEVENTEEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) and you will gladly compensate you with 20% after the deal is done.At your interest please send your details for further directive so that I can avail you with more information and the mutual benefits that will accrue. I hope you will understand the nature of this transaction, which has made me frugal with sensitive information. Name:--------------------------Address:-------------------------------------Telephone #:-----------------------------Mobile:------------------------------Fax:-----------------------------Occupation:-----------------------A copy of international passport E-mail: richcrosby01@gmail.com Best regards.,Mr.Richard Crosby


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