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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: Hector Wilosn <hectorwilson62@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hectorwilson62@outlook.com
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 16:01:03 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: claim now...

From: Hector Wilosn
Emails:hectorwilson62@outlook.com
Date: 04-05-2014



Dear,

I am Mr.Hector Wilson; and I am a Lawyer. Actually, I got your contact information from the public record while searching for a last name similar to my late client's, a business magnate, who lived in Spain for over a decade prior to his death. He died of a heart attack one year later after the demise of his wife and two kids in a car accident, which occurred December 2006.

Prior to further explanation, please accept my apology for this unsolicited mail. I am conscious that this is certainly not a predictable way of approach to foster a relationship of trust, but because of the circumstances and urgency surrounding this issue, I got to this point.

Before the calamity; He deposited one Trunk Box of Personal Treasure, containing the sum of $7.9M (Seven Million Nine Hundred Thousand US Dollars) to a Security and Financial Institution here in Spain and because of security and personal reasons, he did not disclose the exact content of the deposited box to the Security Firm. As the attorney to late Robert Kinnane, the Security Firm has mandated me to present a member of his family (heir/inheritor) to make Claims or the vault will be confiscated and considered as unclaimed.

After exhaustive efforts and searching for a direct family member to my late client which came to no avail, I was given the last option to present a next of kin for the claim or have the Vault liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws. Against these conditions, my suggestion is that, I will like you to stand as the next of kin. I know you may not be anyway related to my late client but having a common surname with him and the modality I have in place, I can guarantee that if you follow my instructions the vault will be release to you.

Mind you that this transaction is risk free; there is no iota of risk connected to this dealing, as I have worked out all modalities to complete the operation effectively. Once the consignment (Vault) is released to you, we shall divide the content in a split of 50% for you and 50% for me as benefit.

All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next of kin will be secured gradually and forwarded to you as we proceed. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please be kind to get back to me through my private email; ……….. if you shall be willing to collaborate so that we can start with the process of claim as soon as possible, Consequent to that, I will officially make a letter of presentation indicating that I have found a next of kin to my late client.

Please mind you that we don't need to make undue publicity as this can hamper the process taking into cognizance that we are not quite sure if you're really related. Discretion must be maintained.

If this business proposition offends your moral values, do accept my apology. Otherwise please contact me at once to indicate your interest through my personal email: hectorwilson62@outlook.com.

Kind Regards,
Hector Wilson.


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