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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: Chuks Brown <chuksbrown569@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:17:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Dear Friend


Dear Friend
I am an auditor with UBS Bank Branch UK. There was an account
opened in this bank in 1998 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this
account again. After going through some old files in the records, I
discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently, this funds will
go down the drains, into the hands of either the board of directors of this bank or the funds may eventually be discovered by the government as a dormant fund in the forth coming audit by the Nations auditors. contact me through this email address if your are interested
They will confiscate or send it into the government's treasury
account. The question now is who is the government and where is the treasury?
These are human beings like you and
 I. The owner of this account is Mr
morris  Thompson, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger gold co, a geologist by
profession and he died in 2000.No other person knows about this account of any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything
about this account.
 
The amount involved is 30Million, Five Hundred and thirty Thousand Unite
States Dollars.30,530.000.00 I am only contacting you, as a foreigner
because this money cannot be approved to a local bank account here, but can
only be approved to any foreign account and foreign beneficiary because the
money is in US dollars and the real owner of the account is
Mr morris  Thompson,is a foreigner too. I only got your contact address from my secretary who
operates computer; with believe in god that you will never let me down in this
business so that I will
 inform you the next step to take immediately. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the managemet is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner, who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later, if you will be able to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust
according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this
opportunity will never come again in our life.
 
With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing and investment. I will also use my position and influence to effect legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance documents from the ministries and foreign exchange
 
department I look forward to your earliest reply.via
 my private email address chuksbrown569@YAHOO.CO.UK
 Yours Friendly,

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