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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: "CECE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cecekon1@gala.net>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 09:24:47 +0100
Subject: My Regards to youl


My Regards to you ,

I fervently pray that this letter soliciting for your kind assistance will not cause any embarrassment to you as I am aware that we have never seen each other before, neither have we exchanged any form of formal contact or correspondence before.I am also aware that this world is full of evil people but I sincerely hope that my humble letter will touch your heart to offer the opportunity of being future business partner,as I believe you are a highly respected personality,and that is why i am writing to you.
Secondly,I hope that my gender as a lady will not stop us from having this business deal?. My name is M/s Cecilia Ekon, at present the Manager;Credits and accounts department of Oceanic Bank PLC.
As regards this project, I had taken pains to find your contact through personal endeavours.
A foreigner,(LATE Sir John Paul Getty II) an oil Merchant,until his death few years ago,banked with us here at the Oceanic Bank PLC,and had a closing balance of USD$24.2M (Twenty four Million,two hundred thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now expects to be claimed by any of his available Relative or next of kin without that it will be Considered frozen.

Itried all Valuable efforts as his account officer to get in touch with any of late Sir John Paul Getty II next of kin (he did not make known his wife or children) to the Bank, until when i consulted the British embassy here and they told me that Sir John Paul Getty II died on Thursday, 17 April, 2003.
Now the board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLIAMABLE" as the account has been dormant since the expiration of the time fixed on the account and then be subsequently Bank's money.
In order to avert this negative development, myself, my lawyer and some of my trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have you stand as the next of kin so that the fund, USD$24.2M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary(Relative)next of kin.Your country of origin does not matter, what matters is your honesty to me.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and we are assuring you 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of the total amount. while the rest 70% would be for myself and my colleagues for investment purposes in your country. If this is OK by you then kindly get to me immediately via e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, and e-mail, so that I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Here is the website confirming his death given to me by the embassy here;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2956897.stm.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation as I wait to hear from you.
Best regards,
M/S CECILIA EKON.

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