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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: Philip Charles <info_servicecharles1@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Philip Charles <mtnsuccess501@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:55:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re:Please my beloved,Can I Trust You?


 Dearest Beloved,

Greeting my beloved friend, I have interest to contact you after much thought considering the fact that we have not meet before, but because of the circumstance oblige me, I decided to contact you due to the urgency.I am Philip Charles and and i am an auditing manager to a Finance security Company in Benin . I got you in a professional database when I was searching for a reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this transaction to.This is urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. During my audit exercise in my Company for the year records 2014, I discovered an abandoned sum of $11.5 Million USD,that was deposited with our company as family valuable, which belongs to our late customer, an American Business Tycoon (Mr.Nick Norris) who died in Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 earlier 2014. Since after his death, nobody has applied for the claim of his deposited money.

I have sent a routine notification to his address but got no response. Finally we discovered from his contract employers that (Mr.Nick Norris) Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Upon further investigations, we found out that he died without making a "WILL" and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless, As a matter of fact, my company does not know about this, and secondly it can only be claimed through his foreign business partner but no names were mentioned as his foreign partner. Therefore, i made further investigation and discovered that he did not declare any one as next of kin or relations in all his official documents. In fact I have spent lots of money to still secure this still the money with our company don’t want the money to go back into our company and neither do I want our company to know that it was an abandoned fund, The Company law and guideline here stipulates that if any deposited item remained unclaimed after five (5) years,
the item will be confiscated and becomes our company's property. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like to present you as the next of kin to (Mr.Nick Norris) .I have with me in my office the documents that will back you up as the foreign beneficiary to late (Mr.Nick Norris).

This transaction is very simple and 100% risk free. In as much, I will present you to our Company officially for this claim. All i am requiring from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this golden opportunity through. I guarantee that, this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please consider my official position and reputation and treat this confidentially.

What I needed from you right now is your full co-operation and upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how the transaction will be executed. Note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to treat this business with me,then 5% will be map out for any expense that occur during the process, and while 55% will go for me. Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the share ration indicated above. I advise you to keep this as a "Top Secret" between you and i as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this transaction with you.

Once again my Company does not know about this transaction,it's between me and you. If you know willing and capable to handle this transaction,kingly get back to me for more details.

Looking forward to your positive response.

Best Regards,
Philip Charles.

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