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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: "Ms. Jennie Alfred" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ms.jenniealfrednurse@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:16:48 -0800
Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE

New Page 2

Dearest Friend,


I know this e-mail may come to you as a surprise, but from the research I made through a contact directory I notice that I can build my trust in you towards this transaction; that is the reason why I decided to contact you. My name is Ms. Jennie Alfred a citizen of United Kingdom but work as the Inspection & Operational manager of my company where all the valuables are being deposited, called Empire Security company London UK.

One day I was doing personal inspection in our strong room, when I notice that what is inside one of the boxes was cash money and I decided to trace from the record of the owner that made this deposit declare this consignment to be family treasure for security reason I noticed. Going through the record I find out that this man is late from the inquiry I made over the depositor, but he left no one as his NEXT OF KIN. When I make use of screen scan I notice that the content and amount in the box is $10.5Million United States Dollars only.

This fund has remained unclaimed; his name is Mr. Ziya Bazhayev; a Russian citizen and he was chairman of the oil company Alliance Group. Now my company is trying to move all unclaimed consignment to the Switzerland Bank at the end of the year, but since I am sure that he left no one as his Next of Kin to his deposited consignment. You can see the reason why I have come to you in confident to see that this consignment was been claimed by you as the Next of Kin to Mr. Ziya Bazhayev.

Since I am working under the Company as the Inspection & operational manager; I stand in better position to fix your personal information into our central system as the Next of Kin to Mr. Ziya Bazhayev to enable the Company attend to you for the claim. Please all I need from you is TRUST/HONEST in this business deal. You can equally read about the man in this news link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/672849.stm

I will tell you more about this and as well tell you how we are going to handle this transaction to be a success. As for now all I need from you is to have your personal information to enable me fixes it into our central system since as Mr. Ziya Bazhayev true next of kin I am the one in charge of the department, our Company to recommend you as the Next of Kin to this man. Thereafter I will give you the contact of a chartered attorney here in UK who will represent you before our Company, so you don't need to fear of coming down here in person before all these will be concluded. But the help of this chartered attorney he will stand on your behalf to provide all the required documents need by our Company in your name for the release of the consignment in your favour, Either to move the consignment to you in your destination or to request the security company to dislodge the consignment to a paying bank that will transfer the fund into your account.

Below here is the information's I needed from you to enable me fix it into our central system as Mr. Ziya Bazhayev Next of Kin: YOUR FULL NAME, AGE, OCCUPATION, CONTACT ADDRESS, DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER, and COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY.

With all these we can start working on how to get this consignment claimed safely without any problem. As soon as we have this transaction concluded I will come over to meet you to have my own share of the money. I have agreed to share the fund 50/50 with you once you receive the consignment. And the reason why I want to run this deal is because I want to save the life of my lovely mother who is sick at the hospital in Canada; please I will not like you to betray me like one of my past friend JAMES ADAMS from Florida whom made away with a huge amount of money I move from our company to his account and he claim that he was the one that take care of the little expenses.

Thanks for your understanding and I wait to read from you ASAP.

Ms. Jennie Alfred
Inspection & Operational
Manager,
Empire Security Company
London UK

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