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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: demo123v@hotmail.com
Reply-To: mdwvvb123@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:33:34 +0300
Subject: Urgent transaction

Good day,

Maybe you have forgotten me, but this is the second time I am sending
this message to you. I hope it gets to you this time around, I have a
very lucrative project that I want you and I to execute immediately. Now
let me brief you about the project, There is a dormant account where i
work with a Financial Security Company here in London. The account
belongs to a late client who made deposit of £7.5Million GBP. The
depositor died many years ago with the supposed next of kin, the Account
has being dormant for quite a long time. British Government is planning
to work with banks and building societies in UK to use unclaimed funds
to assist charity Organizations and community facilities. I and my
colleague has decided to use our position to transfer this funds to you
for safekeeping and investment. View the website so that you can
understand better: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5171222.stm

The transaction is very simple and direct because as soon as I get your
full consent to participate in this project, we are going to sign a
Memorandum of understanding to abide us together, and then contact the
Financial company to reactivate the account for the transfer to take
place, the transaction is legal and free from any encumbrances. If
interested, you are going to receive 30% of the £7.5Million GBP. For us
to proceed, kindly send me your full personal details information, this
is to enable me prepare the memorandum of understanding, send across to
you to go through then sign so that we can proceed. Please if you have
any question, do not hesitate to inform me for further clarification, I
will be waiting to hear from you.

Contact me through my private email: mdwvvb123@gmail.com

Regards,

Dean J. Morrison
Tel: +44 7045 767 680

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