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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: "Mr.Alex Morgan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alex.morgan@blumail.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:16:38 -0500
Subject: Please Read *Important Message*

Dear ,

I am Mr.Alex Morgan The Senior Accountant in my bank, I am the widower of late Nicky Moors and since my wife died things have being very hard for my kids and me and my son Amel who is suffering from heart problem since and now is becoming very serious and I have collected four months salary from my Md just to give the doctors that is treating him because he said that if I did not deposit some money that they will not treat him but I have look left and look right and I only have this deal from my bank and I know that if you will be honest to me this deal will be profitable for both of us and I am not the type that always runs deal in the bank but due to my present condition I now decided to contact you for assistance but all I want is your honesty in this business then I will give you all the details about this money in bank.

I decided to contact you by email because I feel that it is more Secured and private. Recently we discovered a Dormant Account with a huge Amount of Money Valued at US$14.200, 000.00(FOURTEEN MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) that belongs to one of our late Customers who died in a plane crash.
During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to (MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER )who died along with his entire family in Monday,31 July,2000, in a plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELOW:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm The fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the funds in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery of this development. but I want somebody that will keep this transaction very confidential I mean (secret)until we confirm this money in your bank account
The Banking law here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed for ten years, it will be forfeited.

To the Bank treasury as an unclaimed bill it is only a foreigner that can stand as a next Of kin and it is upon this discovery that I decided to contact you to collaborate with you to pull out this dormant fund. In order to avert.

This negative development, I now seek your permission to have you stand in as next of kin to our late Customer So that the fund will be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's next Of kin now that the bank is still expecting a next of Kin or relative of the deceased, it might look difficult but it is very easy.

In fact I could have done this deal alone but because Of My position in this country as civil servants, I am not allowed to operate a foreign account and that would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer since I still work in this bank, this is the actual reason why I required a second party or fellow who will assist me forward claims as the next of kin and also provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this fund, even an empty a/c can also serve for this purpose.
On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% as gratification for your assisting me, and the remaining 60% will be for me.

What I want from you is for you to act as the deceased next of kin. I have in my possession, all the necessary Documents to successfully accomplish the operation. Bear in mind that this proposal is 100% risk free.

Further Information will be given to you as soon as I receive your positive response. This is Legitimate.

As soon as I hear from you I will give you all the information’s and secrets about this money in my bank.i am sending to you now the letter of the information's that i need from you.

Best regards,
Mr.Alex Morgan.
Senior Accountant.

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