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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: Rebecca David <jprimo@dercoperu.net>
Reply-To: Rebecca David <davidrebecca26@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:53:13 -0500 (PET)
Subject: Hello



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Hi Dear,
My Name is Barr. Mrs Rebecca David, a family lawyer to Late Mr. Muqaddim Wahhab who originated from Palestine but reside in Scotland, I hereby solicit for your strictly confidence on a good business transaction involving a huge sum of money from my deceased client Late Mr. Muqaddim Wahhab who died in bomb blast in his home in Palestine with his entire family,may there souls rest in peace. Late Mr. Muqaddim Wahhab is a multi - Million businessmen here in Scotland having branches of his company mostly in Asian Continent. He deposited this funds amounting of {Sixteen million five hundred thousand Great British Pounds Sterling Only) £16.5m for safe keeping in the Bank in London. This fund was actually for a project he wanted to start in the near future (a multi million Dollar steel planting in London) before his sudden and untimely death. Since his death none of his relations or next-of-kin has come forward to claims this fund as the heir. From all my records as his family lawyer, his next of kins are his wife and his two children who were equally involved in the bomb blast.
As the family lawyer, the Bank has contacted me severally to present to them the name of next of kin to Mr. Muqaddim Wahhab, but I have not succeeded in presenting any one. I decided to contact you due to the geographical region where you are located, particularly owing to the sensitivity of the transaction, I decided to contact you and present you as his business partner / beneficiary, and hence I cannot equally claim these funds as his family lawyer. Please I need your urgent co-operation because I do not want this money to go into the Bank Treasury. The banking policy and guideline stipulates that any unclaimed money belonging to a deceased person for the period of 5 years will be transferred into the Banks Treasury as an unclaimed debt. All I require now is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and trusts to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as his family lawyer, I have in my possession all the claim documents that might be required from the Bank for verification before releasing this funds to your account. This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 55% to me and 45% to you. Kindly send the below information; 1. Full Name
2. Your private mobile telephone number for effective communication
3. Your Contact Address.
4. Age
5. Occupation.
Strictly send the above information through my email address: davidrebecca26@yahoo.co.uk for my urgent attention. Best Regards,
Barr. Mrs Rebecca David

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