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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 GABRIEL JOHNSON <gabrieljohnson870@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrgabriel_johnson@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:01:16 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT MATTER






































































Dear Friend,

I am Mr Gabriel
Johnson the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department in
a Bank.Actually, I have a very urgent & confidential Business Proposition
for you & for our overall mutual interest. On the 6th of March2001, our
Customer, an American National, late Jeffrey Collman, an Oil Merchant /
Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, deposited, a valued amount of
US$32Million in my branch.

Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification
to his forwarded address but got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder,
& finally we discovered from his contract employers NNPC, that late Jeffrey
Collman, until his death ten years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack to American
Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California,
crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 people on
board.

All occupants of the aeronplane unfortunately lost their lives. On
further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a ! WILL and all
attempts to trace his Next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that late Jeffrey Collman, did not declare any Next
of kin in all his official documents.

This sum US$32Million is still
floating in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal
sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it. According to
Nigerian Laws, at the expiration of 11years, the money will revert to the
Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently, my proposal is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as
a Next of kin of late Jeffrey Collman. This is simple.

All I require is
your honest and co-operation 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.
I will want you to send to me on your return
email the following information for the transfer in your favor! .

1. Your
full names as the Beneficiary of the Fund.
2. Your contact address.
3.
Your private phone and fax numbers,

Let's consider that our ratio of
sharing will be as stated Thus;

1. I as the Originator of the Fund will
take 60% of the transferable Fund.
2. You as the Manager of the Fund will
take 40% of the transferable Fund.

Most importantly, CONFIDENTIALITY as
what I saw as the life wire to the success of the transfer of this Fund must
have to be emulated between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me
that you will not in anyway expose the content of this transaction to anybody be
it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers.

I will also want you to send
your reply to this my private email:(mrgabriel_johnson@yahoo.com) as soon as you get this mail to enable us discuss on the
modalities and processes for success of this transaction.

Thanks for your
anticipated cooperation and understanding. I wait for your kind
response.

Remain blessed.
Mr Gabriel Johnson




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