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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: "Andrew Campbell" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andrewcampbell887@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:57:36 -0400
Subject: THIS IS BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Hello Dear Friend,

How are you doing, I am sorry for barging into your privacy. I am writing
this email, hoping that you will read and understand it with an open mind,
let me introduce myself properly, my name is Mr. Andrew Campbell, I'm the
General Manager of a front line bank here in London, I am happily married
to Mrs. Julian Campbell, we are blessed with two boys and one girl. My
address is Unit 23 Nathan way London SE 28 OBQ United Kingdom.

I have been searching for someone whom I can trust , so that we can pull
this very important deal through. There is an abandoned sum of Fifty
Million United States Dollars (US$50M) belonging to one of our foreign
customers, who was a citizen of your country. He was dealing in Gold and
real estate business while he lived. He died along with his entire family
by the Tsunami earthquake that stroke in Indonesia on 26 December 2004 and
our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come up to claim the
money, but non has come till this moment. The practice here is that if an
account is abandoned and there is no claim put forward, the bank converts
it to their personal use as the account will be declared unserviceable.

The main reason I contacted you and asked for your assistance in this
transaction is the fact that you have the same last name as the deceased
and he was from your country so, the bank has no justification to inherit
the funds, as an insider in the bank I have all the information that we
need to apply for the transfer, without facing any risk, if we do not
claim the funds the bank will confiscate the funds and make themselves
richer, while there are millions of people out there who are unemployed
and seeking for employment, I firmly believe that we can open up a company
through the proceeds of this transaction and create more jobs
opportunities to better the lives of others as well as ours. I am certain
that the bank will oblige and release the money to you and I will be
assisting in the background.

All I need from you is your honest cooperation and assistance for us to
make this deal successful, because I can not do it alone, I want to
officially introduce you to the bank as next of kin / beneficiary to the
deceased's estate, I have all the documents that the bank may require from
you to prove that you are the next of kin / beneficiary, with your full
information such as name and civil address, phone and fax numbers. I have
to upload the information here on our bank`s database, so that nothing
will stop the bank from transferring the funds into your account as long
as you're willing to follow my instructions, I am here as an insider I
know what it takes to perform this operation.

Do not entertain any fears, this transaction is 100% risk free, all I need
do is to ask my lawyer to go to court here in London to legalize all
documents in my possession in your name just to protect you from any
breech of the law.

My interest in this deal, is that I intend to invest part of my share in
your country, so I'll be with you as soon as the funds are transferred to
your account in order to have my share, as I suggest the sharing formula
to be 50% for me while 45% goes to you,and 5% will be set aside for any
expenses made as we progress, I hope everything is ok by you?

After due process, you will be given the user name and password of the
bank account where the whole money is and access will be give to enable
you view the money through your computer there in your country and you can
also be able to transfer the money online and have it into your bank
account.


Your complete residential address

Your direct mobile phone number (s)

Your Full Names


This transaction will be completed in the next few days as soon as you
start by responding immediately.

I will wait for your quick response and I am 100% ready to give you more
detailed information, therefore feel very free to ask questions if there
is anything you do not understand. I will send you a scanned copy of my
international passport for your records as soon as I get your reply ,
Finally, you must keep this transaction confidential between you and I and
if you think you have a more secured email address which only you can
access, let me have it.

Thanking you in advance for your good understanding and assistance.


Sincerely,
Andrew Campbell

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