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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: "Barrister David Nze" <test@shapingfutures.com.au>
Reply-To: barrdvdnze@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 00:28:15 +1000
Subject: Business Proposal.




>From Barrister David Nze,

I hope this meets you in good health, may I introduce this life changing
project to you. My name is Barrister David Nze a legal practitioner and
Attorney to late family of Mr. Morgan Hollingberry (British) who died
in the plane crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737-200
aircraft On 22 October 2005,20:46PM with his entire family and with no
trace to any other surviving relative after my exhaustive efforts in the
past 10 years.

It is based on these that I contact you, I want you to stand as my late
client's next of kin/beneficiary to claim this cash deposit for the
benefit of both of us. By virtue of my brief and closeness to the
deceased family, I am very much aware of their financial standing, which
they operated here in location I shall disclose to you as we progress
which will be based on the sensitive details concerning these deposit at
my disposal, which am very sure I am the only person privy to these
information.

My late client was an influential wealthy Oil engineer/contractor and he
left behind a substantial amount of money in multiple millions of Us
Dollars with a Bank in a location/country which I can not disclose over
the internet for security reasons.You are at liberty to negotiate the
share ratio with me.

I will intimate you with more details soon as I receive your swift reply.
Please do include your direct phone number in your response. Kindly reply
through my private e-mail: barrdvdnze@hotmail.com Once I receive it, I
will call you to discuss the modalities with you or you can call me
+2348090857982

Best Regards,

Barrister David Nze

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