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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: "Mr.Nelson Williams " <john.damas2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: wnelson@yandex.com
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:51:49 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir,

Dear Sir,

How are you and your family? hope fine. I hope you can be trusted? I
find it pleasurable to do business with you. I will explain further
when i get a response from you.
My name is Mr. Nelson Williams , I am an auditor with NAT WEST BANK
LONDON. I discovered an unclaimed sum of fund £7.5m million (seven
million five hundred thousand pound ) I am contacting you in respect
to transfer this money out from the bank in your name so that we can
share into two. This money has been unclaimed for quite some time now
as such i deem it fit contacting you, This money Belong to one Mr.
Martins Paddy, who was a contractor, He died five years.

Infect it is my friend that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer
out this money through another foreign Beneficiary outside the country
since the owner Mr. Martins is a foreigner and he has died five years
ago. But the management did not know about this money. Our bank
guidelines indicates that if such money remain unclaimed for a period
of four (4) years, it will be transfer into bank Treasury as unclaimed
fund. So what you will do now is to send all your information's to me
new to Enable me change the name of Mr. Martins to your name from the
payment files as the Beneficiary of the fund. Thank you.

Regards,

Mr.Nelson Williams

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