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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: "Mr.Kenny.Richard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <k.richard@london.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:00:35 -0000
Subject: AWAITING YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

Dear Friend,
Greetings to you and your family I am Mr K. Richard the manager of bill and exchange in bank, I have a business of $7.5 Million Dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your country if you are ready to assist me get back to me I will give you full details on how the money will be transfer to you.
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been over 10 years now that most of the greedy Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers.
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of countrys was gold and crude oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so i also used the opportunity to divert some part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no offcial trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
They laundered over ($78 Million Dollars) during the process. As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7.5M) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas again. The (US 7.5 Million Dollars) has been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver/trustworthy person.
The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .There is no one coming to the funds because I secured everything.
kindly fill this form and get back to me as soon as possible.
YOUR NAME____________________________
ADDRESS_______________________________
PHONE/MOBILE NO_______________________
YOUR CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL__________
YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT____________
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN_______________________
SEX________________________
OCCUPATION _________________
Acct No; where this money will remited
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Kenny.Richard
Exchange Manager.
Via email; k.richard@london.com

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