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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: MR herbert <wigweherbertoo1v6b56@postino.ch>
Reply-To: herbert_wigwe1@sify.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:28:13 -0700
Subject: REPLY

Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Herbert Wigwe, I am the Deputy Managing Director of
Access Bank Plc. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge
sum of US$25.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thoudsand United States
Dollars) from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be
well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you to the urgency of
this transaction. PROPOSITION: I am the account officer of a foreigner
named Glenn Hartleberg who died in an air crash along with his wife on
the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers
on board. list Since his death, none ofhis next-of-kin are alive to
make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the
same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace).


We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for
claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines. Upon this discovery. I now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will
be carefully worked out by me for the funds to be released in your
favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. Because after four years the
money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and
the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. So it is on this
note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to
share this money among themselves at the end of the year. It may
interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please
acknowledge

receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor
by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
All I need from you is as follows:1. Your confirmation of your ability
to handle this Business for me. 2. Your word that you will keep this
business as Confidential as possible at all times until we conclude
this business. 3. Your telephone and Fax numbers for communication. 4.
Age and Occupation. I shall be compensating you with thirty percent on
final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while we will
retain sixty-five percent and five percent goes for expenses because I
intend to retire after the conclusion of this business. If this
business is acceptable by you. Do not take undue advantage of the
trust I have bestowed in you. Your faithfully,


Mr. Herbert Wigwe,
Deputy Managing
DirectorAccess
Bank Plc.

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