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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: "CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL......" <dioe@policiacivil.pa.gov.br>
Reply-To: "CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL......" <smithjohnson922@ymail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:31:01 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL......

I am Mr.Smth Johnson Poon Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Hang Seng Bank limited. Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Mr. Fayez Abdulaziz Mohammed who was a business merchant and a contractor with the Iraqi Government but a citizen of SAUDI ARABIA, Made a numbered fixed deposit for 24 calendar months(2Years), with a value of 22.4 Million Dollars (Twenty Two million Four Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war which began in 2003. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that Mr. Fayez Abdulaziz Mohammed along with his wife and only daughter had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hits His Resident.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Mr.Fayez Abdulaziz Mohammed did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty Two million Four Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.

What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration 9 years and 12 months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr.Fayez Abdulaziz Mohammed so that you will be able to receive his funds for us.

Please, if you are capable of standing as the next of Kin to Mr. Fayez Abdulaziz Mohammed , you should indicate through my private email address: (smithjohnson922@ymail.com) so that I will give you more information. Absolute confidentiality is required from you. Besides, I will use my connection to get some documents to back up the fund so that the fund can not be questioned by any authority.

I will give you further details of the transaction when I receive a positive response from you and also the ration which the money will be shared between both of us.

Treat as very urgent.

Best regards
Smith Jonhson Poon

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