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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: "Nelson Taylor Jr.," <n.taylor2001@outlook.com>
Reply-To: n.taylor2002@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:23:05 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: ATTN:


Hello,

How are you and I hope all is well. I am sorry to email you through this
means, I saw your email address on inter-net when I was searching for a
noble and trustworthy overseas business partner to discuss about my
father's estate.

Nevertheless I made this business request to seek for your assistance for
a possible business relationship with you in your country. I have the
desire to enter into private transaction with you in your country, to
commit my inheritance assets approximately $12.5M into good transaction
through your noble investment advice.

It’s very obvious that we had not met before but I want to use this
opportunity to introduce myself to you so that we can know each other very
well and forge ahead for a possible private transaction of my inheritance
estate. My name is Mr. Nelson Taylor Jr., I am from Liberia but I was born
in Ghana where I reside now with my mother Mrs. Monica Taylor.
Unfortunately, father Dr. Thompson B. Taylor is late that is why I am
consulting you to seek for your assistance over my late father's
investment deposit assets.

Sometimes good and real business transaction create fear and panic in the
minds of people especially from strange people like you and I, due to high
volume of scams since inter-web invented the world generally, most count
good businesses cannot be trusted any longer due to fraudulent activities.
But I want to assure you here that every good and real business is always
done legitimately of course, you understand what I meant by that. I am
even scare to reveal my future hope to unknown person but notwithstanding,
my mother and I had concluded this issue to seek for overseas investor to
manage my father's assets on our behalf for good profit returns while, we
planned to re-allocate to your country and settle down for a new living.

Having said this, if our request is been considered by you to inherit
/manage our family assets US$12,500,000.00 in your country we will discuss
this with our family lawyer based on the investment issue you shall source
on our behalf in your country for our mutual benefit.

However, we will appreciate your kind attention to enable me furnish you
with more adequate information regarding my father's investment assets.

Thank you and we hope to receive your kind reply as soon as possible.

Mr. Nelson Taylor Jr.,
For: Taylor Family
#6, Nsawan Achimota Road,
Accra Ghana


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