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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: WILL NEWMAN <abby@occasionspartycentre.com>
Reply-To: <will.new@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:34:43 -0800
Subject: BANK TO BANK

Dear ,





My name is Will Newman I am 26yrs old, just stated work with the Central Bank as a Computer Scientist.

My unit is in charge of wire transfer through Key Tested Telex (K.T.T), and wire transfer bank to bank (swift system).



Several times in my computer your name and contract payment has been appearing as pending but for the fact that I would not like to sabotage the trust given to me to be in this position, that was why I keep calm. After a serious taught, I decided to contact you not minding the risk of sending this message across to you, because these top officials of the CBN, can never tell you the truth about your money rather allow you to spend and pay all you have without getting anything in

return. They will as well tell you that your money has been in one correspondence bank or the other or has been wired but

there is a mistake CHANGE OF ACCOUNT, all FOR YOU TO SPEND MORE MONEY



Now I am out to take this risk and make this transfer to your designated bank account if you will promise me of my Security .

I will wire this with out the knowledge of any body or any top official the bank as soon as I wire this funds through (SWIFT PROCESS), I will immediately run away from the bank and come up to meet you in your country. This is a mafia set-up of which I am ready to do now because I am not ready work in Nigeria here for life because of the instability of this country.



The only instrument I need right now is a new release hard diskette (COMPUTERONIC KTT DRIVE 3000 STORAGE FACILITY CAPACITOR 1990), which I will use to store all your information. After storing all your information on this diskette, I will immediately make transfer. I will achieve this within 24 Banking hours. This is the only way you will get your payment. On confirmation of the funds in your account, I will destroy the diskette and run away immediately. Please, send me a go ahead order immediately.



Yours Faithfully,



Will Newman

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