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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: "Mr Beltran Fabricio" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <belfabricio1@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 01:13:53 -0700
Subject: Proposal

Dear Friend,

kindly permit me to let you know that i am Mr. Beltran Fabricio an Attorney here in Spain. It may interest you to know that i am a man of peace and do not want problems only hope we can assist each other. I have packaged a financial transaction that will be of highly beneficial to both of us. I was the Attorney to late Madam Isabelle Gemma Benjamin of Australia.

I am writing and contacting you through this letter base on the latest development at my late client’s bank which I will like to bring to your personal notice in order for you to help me secure the fund left behind by my late client whom i was her Attorney to avoid the fund being confiscated by her bank. The sum of Four Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Thousand Euro (€4,280,000.00) was left behind by my late client before her death, so i wish to present you to her Bank as the Next of Kin to my late client, so that the fund will now be transferred to you as the Next of Kin, because i have made every human effort to contact any of her direct relations but to no avail and her bank has given me a deadline to present any of her relations or her Next of Kin, if not the fund will be confiscated by the bank.

This informed my contacting you for us to work together so that you can assist to receive the fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. You will take 50% of the total fund as your share, while i will take 50% after the fund has been transferred into your account. Note that there is practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer. If you accept this offer to work together with me, i will appreciate it very much. I do solicit for your strictest confidence in this transaction.

This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and TOP SECRET. This transaction desire absolute confidentiality and professionalism in handling of this matter.

Please let me know what your response will be to this offer of receiving this fund and if the above proposal interests you and you sincerely wish to assist. I will urgently want you to mail to me the information as stated below so that we can commence the mutual beneficial transaction for onward transfer of the fund into your designated bank account.

(1) Your full names and address.

(2) Your telephone or your mobile number.

(3) Copy of your passport, ID card or driver's license.

(4) Your occupation/profession.

I apologize for disturbing you as this mail might be termed unsolicited by you since it's being written to you without your prior consent. Please if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it, as i will not contact you again.

Anticipating to hear from you soonest.

Yours Faithfully
Mr. Beltran Fabricio
Madrid,Spain


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