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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: "Dto. de Archivo" <archivo@mail.iutai.tec.ve>
Reply-To: mreids32@9.cn
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:40:41 -1200
Subject: Business proposal...Urgent response needed

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Morgan Reids, an Accountant & the Auditor General of one of the new
Generation Bank in United Kingdom (Royal Bank of Scotland).Though, this
medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, But I choose to reach you through
it because it still remains the fastest and most confidential medium of
communication. However, this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it
should be treated as such. Well I have an urgent and lucrative business
transaction that will Profit the both of us after completion. So I want you
to patiently read through this email and get back to me.

There is this immigrant Mr. Andreas schranner, a property magnate who was
based in the U.K. and happens to be one of our very good clients. He made a
deposit of fund valued at £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand Great British Pounds sterling) with our bank here in United Kingdom
and unfortunately on the 25th of July 2000, Mr. Andreas schranner, his wife
Maria, their daughter Andréa eich, her husband Christian, and their children
Katharine and Maximilian all died in the air craft (France concord plane
crash) bound for New York in their plan for a world cruise, do check this
link to see the highlight of what I am explaining

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).

This sum of £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds sterling) has been floating as unclaimed since the year 2000
in my bank as all efforts to get across the relatives of our client who
deposited the money has hit the stones. All attempts to trace his next of kin
were fruitless. My position here in my office requires me to investigate and
I therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr. Andreas
Schranner did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official
documents including his bank deposit paperwork in my bank. According to the
British Law, the money will revert to the ownership of the British government
if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money being sent to the
British treasury as unclaimed funds, I have decided to seek your assistance
to have you stand as his next of kin so that the said fund £18,500,000.00
(Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds sterling) would
be released in your name as the next of kin and paid into your account. Be
informed that there is no risk involved as all necessary legal documents
which will be used to back you up as the legal beneficiary and next of kin of
my late client will be procured by my lawyer. All documents and proof that
will have you claim this fund will be forwarded to you without any stress
upon your response to this mail. We shall share this fund based on a clear
and legitimate agreement with you and for the role you are going to play in
this transaction. Please send your confidential telephone in your reply to
this business transaction so that I will really know if you are capable and
have the quality of the kind of trust worthy fellow I need to work in
partnership with. But truly I would like to let you know that I am very
afraid of disclosing this deal to you because I don’t really know if you are
good and trust worthy to partner with in getting this deposited sum released
as I have already made all my plans on the step by step process that we need
to execute this issue without any risk involved in this claim. All I require
is your sincerity, honesty, co-operation and utmost good faiths to enable us
see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

So I think I shall be waiting to know what is in your mind then I would know
if you are really ready and serious to proceed with me. Do not forget that a
transaction of this magnitude require utmost confidentiality and sincerity. I
look forward to your urgent response.


So I will be waiting to receiving your response as soon as possible so as to
know if I may start giving you the full highlight regarding the full details
on how we are to proceed.

Thanks for your understand and do have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Mr. Morgan Reids
Email: mreids32@9.cn

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