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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: "Ian Godfrey" <iangodfrey@web2mail.com>
Reply-To: mrian10@aol.com
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:47:52 +1100 (EST)
Subject: Happy New Year Get Back to me ASAP

Dear Friend

My name is Ian Godfrey , from Kensal Green here in London, and i work for Nat
West Bank. my reason of contacting you is to Introduce an opportunity that
arose from my office which needs an URGENT ATTENTION, and which i also
believed would bring in a great benefit to both of us.

We have discovered an abandon sum of money to the tune of $10.5 million USD
that belongs to one of our LATE FOREIGN CUSTOMER named Morris Thompson,
who unfortunately lost his life and that of his entire family of 3 in the
Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000.

Please allow me to present you as a distant cousin of our late client, so
that
the left over fund would be paid into an account that you would be providing,
and which we shall be sharing to a percentage that we shall agree upon.

I shall provide all necessary legal documents that would backup our claims
in your names or a name that you may provide as far as you have an account
in that name so that this money would be paid into it, all i need is to fill
in your names into the documents so that our Attorney would legalize those
details of yours in a probate court so as to stand you out as the legitimate
beneficiary to whom this sum of money is legally allowed to be paid into its
account. Please provide the details below so we can get things started on
time.

Your Names:
Age/Sex:
Occupation:
Telephone Numbers including mobile:
Contact address:

An urgent response to this mail, so that i shall intimate you on the next
line
of action, as we intend to conclude the transaction within 10 working days.
You can send your response to my personal email address:

( mrian10@aol.com )

Best Regards
Ian Godfrey

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