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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: David Akakpo <davidakakpo832@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: david.akakpo@terra.com
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:50:40 +0000
Subject: Hello

My name is Mr. David Akakpo, Regional Director of a prime bank in Lome
Republic of Togo. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with
you in the execution of the deal described here-under for our both mutual
benefit and hope you will keep it a top secret because of the nature of the
transaction, During the course of our auditing, I discovered an
unclaimed/abandoned fund, sum total of US$7.5,000,000.00 (Seven Million
Five Hundred United States Dollars Only) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers Late Dr Jose Souza who died on 31 of May,2009 in
the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 which crashed on its way to Paris from
Rio de Janeiro Airport in Brazil;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1190034/Air-France-flight-447-British-victims-include-Alexander-Bjroy-11-Eithne-Walls.html

Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the
claim but nobody has done that. I personally has been unsuccessful in
locating any of the relatives, now I sincerely seek your concent to present
you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account
valued at {US$7.5,000,000.00} can be paid to you for the benefit of both of
us.

All that I require from you is your sincere co-operation, trust and utmost
confidentiality to enable us conduct this transaction successfully. I
assured you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your
country and here in Republic of Togo once the fund is transferred to your
bank account. Upon your consideration and acceptance of this offer, please
proceed immediately and send to me the following information.

-Surname
-First name
-Middle name
-Your postal address
-Your direct phone number
-Date of Birth
-Occupation

This information will enable me to upload your data into our bank database
to reflect in the bank network system that you are the named next of kin of
this fund and I will guide you on how to open communication with the bank
and make the claims for onward transfer of the fund to you, please note
that we have few days to carry out this deal, Your kind rapid response is
highly appreciated.

Thanking you in anticipation for your response.

Regard

Mr. David Akakpo

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