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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: Declan----Royce <declanroyce@att.net>
Reply-To: roycedeclann@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:49:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Enquiry



Hello





I am sorry for sending unsolicited mail to you, Before you proceed reading my mail, please do go through this web page:http://www.tsunamis.com/tsunami-pictures.html for you to understand the reason why I am contacting you.





My name is Mr. Declan Royce, I was the Personal Assistant to the late deceased. my boss died in the tsunami victim that happened 26th December,2004,when he traveled on on tourism inspection of the new office he wanted to open in Thailand and coincidentally he was a victim of the disaster, I have been searching for his relatives without success as his bank has refused to release the money in his account unless his next of kin is established and this problem has kept me out of business and job since his exit as I have been managing with my family doing odd jobs having exhausted the little savings of my salary.







My late boss have been in living in London for the past 22years from his date of death, he is a divorce, he is a businessman dealing in exportation of woods to Asia and Europe. I have been working with him as old as he is in London and I am the one in charge as of then all his confidential issues.





We hold our major banking in a bank in London(Name withheld for security reasons)





As his personal assistant , I was asked by the management of his bank to present his next of kin to them for the release of his money in his account as they cannot release such to me as I am an ordinary employer to him and we have been finding it difficult to run our business since himself who was the sole account signatory of our business is dead and the bank cannot permit me to make any withdrawal from the account as I am not his relations or account signatory.





The total money that he left in his Account in a London Bank is US$5.7Million. I am contacting you now based on this fact and hereby seek your hand in this since I am the only authorized person to provide his next of kin to the bank for the release of the fund. All we need is a mutual understanding and maximum cooperation to champion this transaction to success.







I have already informed my late Boss Attorney in England that I am still making serious efforts to locate my boss relations and he has agreed to help me file the documents of the claim to the Bank so that I can bring out the money in the account for me to use whatever amount his relations will give me to start my own business as I am currently stranded without any work or business of my own as I do not want him to know that you are not related to my boss.





This business is completely irrelevant to your nature of business and also

100% risk free.





If this interest you, all you need to do is to send to me your Full Name,Address and Telephone and mobile number for easy communication, upon the receipt, I will also like us to enter into a mutual agreement first in other to build more trust and confidence to each other .





I am of the kind suggestion that we shall share the money by me taking 55% and you 40% while we set aside 5% to service the lawyers fees, Bank Charges and Our miscellaneous or logistics expenses we might individually or jointly in cure in the process of recovering the money.





I will also expect that we have a web-cam chat so that we can know each other facially by web-cam.





I am expecting to hear from you.



Thank you.

Mr.Declan Royce

Email: declanroyce@hotmail.co.uk

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