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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: John Adu <info@info.net>
Reply-To: <Johnadu2014@1email.eu>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:35:42 +0100
Subject: From M. allen

>From Mr Mike Allen.
a banker in republic
of Ghana West Africa

Dear Friend

I am Mr Mike Allen. I am an accounting officer in foreign accounts department in our bank.

During one of our general auditing on 2012 in our Bank,My Department came across a very huge sum of money (us$27.5 million

dollars)Twenty seven million five hundred thousand United state dollars,belonging to a deceased customer of our Bank a

Foreigner,who died in the plane crash on 2009 with other passengers aboard.

Since then I have made several inquiries to foreign embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives but this has

proved unsuccessful.

After all these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any of his

family member but of no avail. hence I contacted you for you are a foreigner as our late customer.

I need your assistance in evacuation of the funds left behind by our client in the Bank before they get confiscated or

declared on-serviceable by the Government, because official, financial laws here stipulate it that after five years any fund

or assets deposited with bank/security firm without claim or servicing,

the money or assets will be divert to central bank as unclaimed bill. since I have been unsuccessful in locating the

relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are a

Foreigner so that the proceeds of this deposit valued at us$27.5 million dollars can be paid to you and we share the money,

All necessary legal documents that can be used to back up the claim will be processed and send to you for record purpose.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this business will be executed

under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both before and after the funds are approve

and transfer into your account.

You have to assure me that you will not sit on the fund when it is finally claimed by you.I will be Expecting your quick

response to enable us proceed further on this claim.

My Best regards,

Mike Allen

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