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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: Jerry Robinson <j_robinson46@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:45:15 +0000
Subject: Greeting Dear,


Greeting Dear,

I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to overseas

account ($30,000.000.00 USD) Thirty million United States Dollars

Only) from Our Bank here in London. I want to ask you,If you are

not capable to handle it quietly look for a reliable and honest

person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing

bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c 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 for this

important business trusting in you and believing in God that you

will never let me down either now or in the future.

I am jerry Robinson. presently promoted to Auditor General in

one of the banks here in London. During the course of our

auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account

opened in the bank in 1998 and since 2004 nobody has operated on

this account again, after going through some old files in the

records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a

[Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit

this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The

owner of this account is an American and a great industrialist

and a resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost his life

in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed

on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter leaving

nobody to claim the money. No other person knows about this

account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other

beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the

account is a secret account.

The total amount involved is Thirty million United States Dollars

only [$30,000.000.00] and we wish to transfer this money into a

safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner; I

am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot

be approved to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has

information about the account, which I shall give to you upon

your positive response.I am revealing this to you with believe in

God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the

first and the only person that I am contacting for this business,

so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step

to take urgently. I need your strong assurance that you will

never let me down,and the key bank official who is deeply

involved with me in this business. I guarantee you that this

transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that

will protect you from any breach of the law the bank official

will destroy all documents of the transaction immediately you

receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my

position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward

transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance

from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

contact me Though my email address jerryrobinson38@yahoo.com

Bellow is the information you have to send if you are interested

in this deal.
A]. Bank Name.....................
B]. Bank Address (including Phone & fax numbers)............
C]. Swift Code............
D]. Your Account Number............
E]. Your Account Name ..............................
F]. Your Address (including Phone & fax numbers)..............
G]. Your occupation...................
H]. Your scanned international passport or drivers license for

proper identification.
Thank you for your time and attention.

Yours,

Jerry Robinson.

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