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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. Richard Ricci" <mrricci2.24@msn.com>
Reply-To: <richardtricci@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:46:04 +0000
Subject: From: Mr. Richard T. Ricci






From: Mr. Richard T. Ricci
1 Churchill Place, E14 5HP
London UK. COMPLIMENTS, TRANSFER OF $250 000.000.00. Million USD TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I am Mr. Richard T. Ricci; Chief Auditor and Operation Manager working with Barclay's Bank Plc London Uk, there is a project at hand I will like to partner with you.This is an investment/partnership business proposal which I believe, will be of mutual benefit to both of us. This massage is strictly confidential and is for your attention only.I wish to transfer the sum of $250 000.000.00. Million which belong to our foreign Deceased Client, The fund has been dormant (in- active) for 10 years in our Bank here without anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died a long time ago with his supposed next of kin in air crash, Through my compilation of accounts, I discovered a credit account with A/C N0:BNA6008741845 and Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars ($250 000.000.00 USD) deposited. On further trace I came across the file and found out that the account has be inactive for more than Ten (10-11) yrs. And the true owner of this funds/account was Engineer Christian Eich, a German who Ran caretaker BMW's museum unfortunately lost his life, including his wife and two children in the plane crash (Flight AF4590) which crashed on July 31st 2000 killing all 109 people on board. Regarding the short period of Twenty-One (21) working days allowed confirming and submitting the reports by the Board of directors of my bank, which may lead to the cancellation or terminating of the account. I have chosen to seek your consent to work with me as a team and pull out this fund under the legitimacy as the heir apparent of Late Engineer Christian Eich.The intended transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any infraction of the law. However, if this business proposition offends your moral ethics, do accept my sincere apology. If on the contrary you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me with your interest for further explanation. I contacted you for this business because the fund will be approved and paid to any Foreigner with the correct information of the account and the credit balance which I will provide to you, we will share it between us after successful completion of transfer to your account. I wait very urgent to hear from you. Mr. Richard T. Ricci.
Chief Auditor and Operation Manager,
BBP AG Postfach,
1072 United Kingdom.

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