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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: willson victor <wvic1953@live.com>
Reply-To: wvi1953@live.com
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 09:25:26 -0300
Subject: Greetings from Abidjan



Greetings from Abidjan


Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax
mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to
overseas account
($160,000.000.00 ) One hundred and sixty million US DOLLARS from a prime Bank
here in Abidjan. I want to ask you, If you are not capable to quietly
look for a
reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an
existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this
money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting
in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in future

I am Mr.willson victor , presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the
banks here in Abidjan cote d'ivoire. During the course of our auditing last
week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
2008 and
since 2011 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some
old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account
died without
a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is Mr.
Keith Lathan an American and a great industrialist and a resident of Alaska
State, who unfortunately lost his life in the Auto crash in Alaska , which
crashed on January 31 2006, including his wife and only daughter
leaving nobody
to claim the money. No other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved
to me as well that the account is a secret account.

The total amount involved is One hundred and sixty million US DOLLARS only
[160,000.000.00 DOLLARS ] and we wish to transfer this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I am only
contacting
you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local
person here,
but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I
shall give to
you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you with
believe in God
that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first
and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply
urgently so that
I will inform you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance
that you will never let us down, me and a key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this business.

I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank
official
will destroy all documents of the transaction immediately you receive
this money
leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain
all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the
total amount, 70% will be for us. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

I look forward to hear from you.

Best Regards

willson victor .


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