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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: "Helen Aziz" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <helaziz@rediffmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:15:48 -0600
Subject: Contact Mrs Clayton and claim the funds.

Dear friend,

My name is Helen Aziz, my husband only brother took me to China, planted large quantity of hard drugs in my baggage and alerted police to pick me up, this is shortly after the death of my husband, he told me to travel to China with him inorder to secure my late husband's bank account since i am the next of kin.



He did this because of my late husband's numerous properties that worth huge amount of money, he must have claimed all by now.

I am contacting you because there is a huge amount of $62Million that my husband made through his crude oil transaction shortly before his death, the lady incharge of this funds is Mary Clayton, she is a British lady, she lives in Manchester U.K, i want you to contact her and claim the total funds of $62Million, i have just emailed her now and told her about you.



My late husband's only brother does'nt know about this particular funds.

Contact Mrs Mary Clayton urgently and claim this funds.

Don't be afraid, i am my late husband's next of kin and i have written to Mary Clayton and have transfered ownership to you legally.



As soon as you recieve the funds, invest it wisely because my late husband worked hard for it, i know that the China Government will kill me because the people i met here told me that but as soon as you recieve the money please come to China with Mrs Clayton and see how i am doing if am still alive.



Since nine months that i was brought here, i have not been accessed to internet or any communication system, but they allowed us today and stated that we shall use internet for the next one week and after one week, no more internet, contact me if you have any question before one week.

I don't know if they are going to kill us after a week.

Please pray for me.

Helen Aziz

Email: helaziz@rediffmail.com

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