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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: Mr John Bull <mr.j.bull62@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:37:28 +0100
Subject: Hello pls get back to me

Greetings to you,


Attn;
I'm Mr. John bull, Chief Executive Officer based in United Kingdom
I am Writing about a business proposal that will be of immense benefit
for both of us. In my department, with the Greater London Regional
Executive Officer, I discovered a total sum of £ 16.500,000,00 million
(Sixteen million five hundred thousand Great British pounds) in an
account that belongs to our foreign customer Late Mr. Mosie's Saba
masri . He was a Jewish business mogul from Mexico who was a victim of
a helicopter crash in the beginning of the last 2 years that killed
him and family members. Mr. Saba was 47 years old when both his wife,
his only son Avraham (Albert) and his daughter-in-law died in a
helicopter crash.


The choice of contacting you from the geographical nature of awakened
where you live, particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction
and confidentiality here. Now our bank has been waiting for one of the
Relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that. I
personally were unsuccessful in locating the relatives, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the
deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at 16.500,000,00
million pounds may be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% for me and
40% to You. I have all the necessary legal documents that can be
secured to ensure to this statement we make. All I need is to fill in
your name to the Documents and legalize it here in the court to prove
you as the legitimate Beneficiaries. All I require now is your
honesty, co-operation, confidentiality and trust to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee you 100% success and that this
business transaction will be executed under the ambit of law that will
also protect you from any breach of the contract.

Please give me the following, as we have 7 days to run it through.
This is very URGENT PLEASE.

1, Full Name:--------------------------------
2, Your Direct Mobile Number:---------
3, Contact:----------------------------------
4, Occupation:-----------------------------
5, Age / Gender:---------------------------
6, Nationality:------------------------------

Having gone through a methodical search, I decided to contact you
hoping that you will find this proposal interesting. Please on your
confirmation of this message and indicating your interest I will
furnish you with more informations.

Thank you very much, as I wait for your positive response.

With best regards,

>From : Mr. John bull.

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