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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: JPMorgan <JPMorgan@consultant.com>
Reply-To: davehugo114411@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:34:30 +0000
Subject: THANKS

JPMorgan Chase Bank,
Full Service Brick and Mortar Office
561 West Interstate 30
Garland, TX 75043
 
Attention:,
 
My name is Mr.Dave Hugo from United State of America, Presently working as Chief Executive Auditor with JP Morgan Chase Bank here in America. I know that this information through your email will come to you as a surprise as we never met before, because of high rate of fraudulent activities in the internet. I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account also if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. I need strong Assurance that you will never let me down, if I transfer this money to your account. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Four Million Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars ($154,850,000.00) to your account.
 
The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here without anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer from Switzerland Zurich, Mr.Brantley Lewis Audit (the owner of the account) who died along with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on 31st July 2000. The Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer.
 
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a project of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment. You can either provide me with an existing account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me down in future when the funds will transferred into your account.
 
I intentionally left out certain information which I deemed proprietary at this point, I need you to reconfirm your information by providing us in strict confidence, with: (a) your full names (no initial please); (b) your date of birth; (c) your current occupation; (d)contact address and (e)your telephone/fax numbers. Once we reconfirm your information above and are satisfied, I shall provide you with the entire privileged information/legal document relating to the deceased customer and his term-deposit account and will also give you guidelines on how I intend to realize this goal without the breach of the law.
 
I would respectfully request that you treat the content of this letter as privileged and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this correspondence. Contact me immediately for more information and to begin the normal process of redeeming the fund before the bank is compelled by law to hand over the money to the government.
 
The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of his company. My investigation through the National immigration department and Ministries here proved to me as well that he was single during his first visit in America. As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund to you for our family benefit.
 
I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible
Very Important: You should contact me through my private email or send me fax immediately through my fax number (1 609 429 1436).
 
Most Sincerely,
Mr.Dave Hugo

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