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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: ALFA JOHNSON <almacen@ideam.gov.co>
Reply-To: alfajohnson2007@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:45:29 -0500
Subject: Hello Compliment of the Season



Hello Compliment of the Season,

Your identity and contact was made known to me in my desperate quest
to successfully locate the next of kin to an account file forwarded to
mine desk for liquidation.I am Alfa Johnson , I work with the legal
department of the FIRST GULF BANK DUBAI. It is my job to see that any
unclaimed account resulting from demise of account holder is certified
and confirmed? UNCLAIMED? before final liquidation instruction is
passed on any such account file.

With the above explanation of my responsibility/obligation in carrying
out my duty, I was necessitated to making contact with you because an
account file due for liquidation and currently valued at US$ 10.3
Million (Ten million, three hundred Thousand US Dollars) was forwarded
to my office for final search of next of kin to the deceased account
holder, this account was last operated in April 2003.I have tried to
locate the next of kin to this account but to no avail. I have tried
the embassies, still no results. In my quest to locate such person, i
came across your identity. Coincidentally you bear the same surname as
the holder of the account in question and that is the major reason for
my contact with you.I have been mandated to provide next of kin to
this account or have the account confiscated within thirty official
working days from the 22nd of Febuary 2010.

Therefore I seize this opportunity to make a confidential transaction
proposal to you as follows: -

1. We both work together on this file, I will use my official capacity
to front you as the next of kin to this account file. All files
relating to this account will be amended to suit our plight.

2. I will be your lawyer here in DUBAI, who will be standing in on
your behalf while the claim suit is going on. I will be directing the
affairs of the claim suit from behind the scene.

3. Once claim of account approval by virtue of next of kin is passed
in favor of us.[you] We shall have the proceeds of the account
shared/disbursed as follows:-{i} 80% to be shared equally (40:40)
between both parties (you and me) {ii} 20% will be set aside for
expenses incurred in the course of Execution of the transaction
afterwards. We might have to indulge in a bit of lobbying to scale
through a few bureaucratic bottleneck procedures and to gain claim and
transfer approval quickly.All I require is your honest co-operation to
enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the Law. Upon your critical scrutiny of the above mentioned
proposal and 3 point operational module.

I expect to hear from you as soon as possible. Please get back to me
with my private mail if your intrested;alfajohnson@o2.pl

Sincerely,
Barrister Alfa Johnson





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