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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: John Scott <john.scott78@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <davidmoore1230@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 21:33:10 +0000
Subject: VERY URGENT MAIL ME IMMEDIATELY.


Hello Good Day,


ATTENTION: CONFIDENTIAL I NEED YOUR CO-OPERATION IN THIS TRANSACTION.

Greetings!
My name is David Moore, Bank director here in London. I must solicit
your confidence in this proposal; this is by virtue of its nature as
being utterly sympathizing, though i know that a proposal of this
magnitude will make anyone Apprehensive and worried.

There is a
sum of 116 Million dollars deposited since 2005 by late citizen from
your country. I have tried to trace any member of his family so that
they will come and claim this money but I could not locate his family
members. According to the British Law, if the account remain dormant for
a complete period of ten years, the money will be recovered by the
British Government as an abandoned funds.

Now, I am contacting
you for you to stand as his relative or business partner since he was a
Citizen of your country. You and me will share the money equal after
claim, 50% for you and 50% for me. I promise you that you will never
regret your involvement in this business.

I am sending you the prove of deposit certificate and I will give you more details after hearing from you.

Please for security reason, reply me only on my private email address at (davidmoore0012@yahoo.co.uk)

I am waiting for your reply.

David Moore.


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