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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: "Dan K. Pas." <susanbenson2010@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Dan K. Pas." <halowia@libero.it>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:54:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: YOU ARE CHOSEN FOR THIS NOBLE OBJECTIVE ?.


YOU ARE CHOSEN FOR THIS NOBLE OBJECTIVE ?.

Hello,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never seen or met before.
I contacted you in my search for a reliable and capable individual to partner with me.

I am the Director in charge of auditing and accounting section in an African Bank.
I came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our foreign clients that
died years ago. In his file, he deposited the sum of Ten  Million and
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($10.500 000.00Million USD), without any
corresponding will, beneficiary or next of kin to the deposit. This money has been inactive
and floating ever since.

Further private inquiries and investigations by me disclosed that the client was murdered
in cold blood with his family during the last civil unrest that besiged this country few
years ago and efforts to trace and contact his other family members proved abortive.

Hence nobody has ever put up claims for the money and the banking ethics in this
country stipulates than any unclaimed funds that exceeds THREE years will be turned
to government treasury. I do not want this to happen to this money as greedy and
selfish government officials will claim this money for thie selfish ends.

In view of this, i am contacting you a foreigner so that the money will be released to you,
i am the directly incharged of ensuring the release of the funds but it cannot be released
to an indigen of this country as banking principles stipulates, moreover the depositor is
a foreigner in this country. No other person in this bank is aware of this account but
because it must be processed officially in this bank, thats why i need to front you as the
next of kin or beneficiary so that the money will be released and transfered to you
in your bank account.

Please be rest assured that this is totally risk free as you will discover yourself.

At the successful conclusion of this project , you will be entitiled to 35 percent of
the total sum while 5 percent will be mapped out for expenses and the remaning
60 percent will be for me.Please dont think negatively about this, i am a trained
pastor and i will be using all my share to assist the less privileged instead of
releasing the money to greedy and corrupt government officials in this country
that will convert it for thier private use.

On getting your positive response, i will give you detailed informations on the way forward.

Waiting to hear from you ?.

Sincerely yours,

Dan K. Pas.                    

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