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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: mr john eze <mrjohn_eze66@live.com>
Reply-To: mrjohn-eze@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:51:58 -0400
Subject: Be My Partner



--
<pre>Dear Sir,

My name is Pastor. John Eze, I work in the credit and accounts
department
of Spring Bank in Lagos, Nigeria.

I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domiciliary A/C number
6402356789. His name is Engineer Erick Board . He was among those who
died
in a plane crash here in Nigeria during the reign of late General Sani
Abacha.

Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Erick Board, who was
an
oil merchant/contractor,I have kept a close watch of the deposit records
and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this
a/c
as next of kin to the late Engineer. He had only $28.5mllion in his a/c
and
the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or
password of the deposit particulars.
As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed
information other than my very self considering my position in the bank.

Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as
next of kin, I hereby ask for your cooperation in using your name as the
next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign
offshore
bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am
the
only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file
from
the safe .

By this doing, what is required of you is to send an application laying
claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer.I will need
your
full name and address, company and residential, so that i can work on it
and enter it in the certificate of deposit.

Finally i want you to understand that the request fora foreigner as the
next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and
for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin.
When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be
split
between us.

Trusting to hear from you, I remain

Respectfully yours,

Pastor. John Eze.

Tel: 234-803-683-5020

</pre>

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