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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: "adam green" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adam_22greem@hotmail>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:22 -0500
Subject: BUSNIESS PROPOSAL!!!

Good day,
I am contacting you because I am looking for a partner in the realization of a project.First of all I would like to introduce myself, I am Mr Adam Green, I live in London England,am practicing as a financial consultant.I have an unusual but lucrative offer for you,i do not know you in person neither do you know me too but i have no choice about this than to write to an unknown person so as to enable me accomplish this great opportunity.
I am the financial consultant to a client of mine who died suddenly some time abroad leaving a large fortune without leaving a will or an heir to the fortune.There was also no next of kin to claim this inheritance and after an extensive search to find someone but all to no avail.The government are now threatinig to send the heritage to the state.My client was a citizen of your nation and so I am looking for a person from your country who can as the heir so that the state can release the heritage.
My offer would be thus as follow:I will declare you as the next of kin to my deceased client and then you will stand the chance to claim the fortune and for your cooperation and assistance I'll give you 50% of the capital assets on conclusing of the business.Since I am the legible financial advicer to the deceased there is no problem to obtain all the necessary documents within a short time to enable the investment firm that is holding the heritage to make release immediately.
My late client documents filed for this fortune are all with me,before his sudden death which was so sad.He was a serious businessman and has his fortune in South America and West Africa,he trade in minerals and he is also into construction industry.His assets amount to a large sum and i am going give you more detail information concerning the exact amount we are going to share as soon as you confirm to me your interest to pursue this great opportunity.

Let me know if you can handle a transaction of this kind.I also want to ask you that in this case if you are not interested to assist with this that you should also inform me immediately.If you wish to pursue this with me i will send you my contact / telephone number and you can also send me your phone number then I'll call you back for more oral details.

Please answer me even if you are not interested so I can continue my search expeditiously. However if you should be interested i am pleased to have found someone to help me with the release of the inheritance immediately.

Best regards,
Mr Adam Green

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