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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: "P" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidpollard1@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20.03.41 +0200
Subject: WHERE ARE YOU

Good day,
This message is directed to you for the purpose of a transaction that is worth £ 45,300,000.This transaction is completely legitimate and all legal documents will be provided which will cover you and the funds during the course of this transaction.

I am DAVID POLLARD by name , Ince & Co international commercial law firm .London.


If you are interested in this transaction,

I will advise you send me an email with the following details to this email :

davidpollard1@hotmail.com



Full Name :

Tel Number:

Age:

Occupation :

Address :


The reason for these details to be released to me is for me to be sure I am not corresponding with the wrong person. Note that you are been contacted because of your family name and as such, I must be very sure someone else is not playing a fast one on either both of us.

You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector.

I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such
opportunities only come once in a lifetime.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal.

I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me .

If you would like to discuss further about this transaction that is in your family name as an inheritance that you

will benefit from, email me back only on this email address : davidpollard1@hotmail.com

Note: Do not respond to this email address you received this message from because my server has a problem to send mails and so, I send you with my relative's email. Endeavour to respond only to the email address stated above. Your response will be highly appreciated at this point because this money has been delayed for too long and I would like to finalize the transaction as soon as possible so that I can go ahead with my other client's issues I have at stake.

Best Regards.
David Pollard

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