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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: DAVID ALDER <griffalderdave1945@gmail.com>
Reply-To: davidaldergth@live.com
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:35:42 +0100
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?YOUR_IMMEDIATE_RESPONSE_IS_HIGHLY_NEEDED=2E=2E=2E=E2=80=8F?=

Good day,

There is no way I could have reached you with an utmost confidentiality if
not through this medium, kindly accept my unsolicited letter to you. My
name is David Alder, a retired Military personnel, an attorney at law as
well. I work with a finance company that offers banking, mortgage and
insurance service. Name of company withheld for security purposes and shall
be disclosed to you as we progress. I wish to introduce to you a profitable
and 100% risk free business proposal which we would both benefit from in
the nearest future.

A certain customer of the firm I work with, called (Chief Engineer Mark)
made a fixed deposit of $150,450,000.00 (One hundred and Fifty Million Four
hundred and Fifty thousand United States dollars) to us with an agreement
of 5 years since 2003, in which I witnessed the memorandum of understand
which took place between him and the finance institute, i.e the copy of
agreement. To be candid with you, we lost my boss 2 year ago and Mr Mark
never visited the bank to retrieve his funds in the last 60 months, before
his untimely death which came to me as shock on the 3rd of January 2004,
when he traveled on a business trip to Egypt, full details on (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3365721.stm). The person he filled
as next of kin in the form with us is no where to be found and we have
inquire more to locate the beneficiary but to no avail still and any of his
other family members.

After severe investigations, I got to know that he died without making a
"WILL" or trace for any member of his family to claim the funds left behind
in our custody; thus his death came abruptly. The reason why I contacted
you was that, I want us to work together as partners so that you can stand
as the beneficiary to the deceased person. All I need to do is present you
as one of the extended family member of the depositor hence you are ready
to co-operate fully, and to also lets join hands together as your family
attorney to enable us bring the funds into your country for business
venture, and partially donate sum of the funds to charity organization.

More so, I will like to meet with you in person in your country at the end
of this endeavour and also discuss and negotiate on how to come invest and
settle in your country with my family and also meet your family for
futuristic purposes and business plans. feel free to reply me immediately
by forwarding to me the beneath required particulars of you to enable the
commencement of all the needful documents which will automatically proof
you the true beneficiary to inherit the estates legally.

1. Beneficiary names:
2. Full Home address:
3. Telephone, mobile and fax numbers:
4. Age:
5. Marital status:
6. Present Occupation:
7. Nationality: , and Please state if different from place of birth:

Upon your response, I shall provide to you more details concerning this
deal; thank you in advance as I look forward to receiving your positive
response/opinion.

Yours Sincerely
David Alder

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