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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: "Kirk Murdoch" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kirkmurdoch2008@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:37:42 +0100
Subject: Attention

Dear Friend,

With due respect to your person,I am Mr Kirk Murdoch. I kindly wish to ask
for your attention and consideration just for a while. I know this is
certainly not the appropriate channel to contact you but situation
necessitated This medium. However, I am sincerely sorry for any
inconveniences this may cause you. I am an attorney of here in
Unite Kingdom, and I have a business opportunity to propose to you which would be
of mutual benefit to both parties if carefully executed. I am an attorney
and personal friend to Colin Morley who died in the July 2005
London bomb blast. Colin Morley was a good client of mine, before he
was killed in the 2005 London bomb blast; he however has a deposit of
forty eight million doallrs ($48.550 Million USD)with the bank
and his family members are not aware of this particular account due to the
perennial crisis in his marital life. As his close confidant and an
attorney, he warned me on the implication of disclosing his account
status to any member of his family,

For more details and confirmation please try and visit this site below for
clarification:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4741333.stm

Based on the afore-mentioned, I want you to join me in facilitating the
claim of this money for our own personal use.

All I need do is to present you as the partner and next of kin to the
deceased.

The bank would transfer the funds to you as the beneficiary .Please note
the urgency in this transaction and a timely response is required so that
we can beat their deadline. Please have no fear for I assure you that all
relevant documents needed to make this deal successful shall be forwarded
to you as soon as I receive a positive response from you. Note that we
need joint effort to make this deal successful.

I believe strongly that if this deal is carefully executed, it would be of
great benefit to both of us.

Waiting earnestly for your response.

Reply me on:kirkmurdoch2008@gmail.com
Best regard,
Mr Kirk Murdoch


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