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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: itdepartment@skycable.com
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 17:43:59 +0800
Subject: =?windows-1256?B?TXkgUHVycG9zZSBvZiBjb250YWN0aW5nIHlvdS7+?=

Mr. Gordon P. Chen
Vice President/Manager
Bank Of East Asia USA (NA)
San Gabriel Branch
168 West Valley Boulevard,
San Gabriel, CA 91776, USA
Greetings Friend,

I am Mr. Gordon Chen of The Bank of East Asia USA, San Gabriel Branch,
California (USA), I write to seek your consent to carry out a transaction
that would be highly beneficial to you and I. I know you may be wondering
why I am contacting you for this despite all the friends and relations
that I have but I decided to do this with an unknown person to avoid any
form of blackmail in the future.

MR. DAVID ANGELL was an account holder with my bank. I have been his
account officer for 11 years before his death. He died during the World
Trade Center bombing in September 11 2001, Since his death, the management
of my bank has made series of efforts to locate his family but all efforts
were proved abortive. I also carried out series of research to find his
family but it was confirmed that the mother who was the only surviving
member of the family died at the hearing of the son’s death. He was
already divorced before his death and due to this fact; no one was able to
claim the fund he deposited in my bank legally because there was no will
to it. He had a secret dollar account with my bank worth the sum of
$58,200,000.00 (Fifty Eight Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) with an interest agreement of 6.7% which have been for the past
11years.
My purpose of contacting you now is this: My bank during the last
executive board meeting resolved that if by the end of this year and there
is no beneficiary to the said account, the account will be confiscated and
the fund sent to the bank treasury and this is where I am interested in
and wants you to come in:


I want you to come in as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to this account. I
have all the titled documents to back your claim and as the Vice President
and Manager of this branch, it is in my power to carry out any form of
verification on the beneficiary of the said fund and process the fund wire
without any problem. I want you to know that this is legal and 100% risk
free as all the titled documents would be changed to your name and the
fund will wired to any bank account you wish to have it wired to.

Please note that I am willing to let you have 40% of the total sum while
you give me 60% when the fund finally gets to your nominated bank account,
Also note that I am willing to go extra mile to make this a success
because if anything goes wrong, then I stand the risk of losing my job and
even go to jail for trying to carry out such transaction. This is why I am
contacting you so that we can put heads together and take care of this
transaction within now and the next 9 days. Kindly get back to me
immediately with my private email address for security reason
(gordonchi0012@live.com) that I advice you on how this would be carried
out.
Sincerely,
Mr. Gordon Chen

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