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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: "James. M Cooper" <james.m_cooper@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 04:03:46 -0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE

James Cooper (Mr.)

25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf , London E145LB,

Good day,

I am Mr. James Cooper, Operating Officer and Chartered accountant of this bank here in London. With your honest assistant and cooperation, we can complete this transaction within 7/14 working days.

I am personally contacting you base on the matter on ground. I am an account officer to one of our customers, Mr. Mark who bears the same last name with you. He is a national of your Country who used to work with Oil Company here in London.

On the 2nd of August 2003, Mr. Mark and his wife with their three children were involved in a car accident along Manchester Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by our late customer before it got confiscated or declared unserviceable by our bank where these huge deposits were lodged.

I need a reliable, honest, and capable person who will be able to handle this great business opportunity with me immediately, because of the need to involve a foreigner as the next of kin\beneficiary to our late clients fund. I am contacting you because of such demand, and I believe you will work with me to achieve this purpose and will never turn down my request.

Particularly, he maintains the deposit valued at (GBP9,750,000.00) Nine Million, Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling Only in a Bank account number: ABP-LN-685 00/52207712321, here in our bank. The board of directors has issued me the LAST notice as the deceased's account officer to provide the next-of-kin or have the account confiscated within the next one month.

Also it will interest you to know the deposited fund has attracted an interest of 1 million pounds make the total amount of 10,750, 000.00 (Ten Million Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling Only).

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over nine (9) months now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last name with him. so that the proceeds of this account valued at 10,750,000.00 will be paid to you as the Next of Kin/extended relative.

I have some of the important official paper work documents that can be used to back up the claim which Mr. Mark kept with me as his account officer when depositing the fund here in our bank on the above stated account number.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through immediately

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will get you a better attorney who will handle the legal aspect of the transaction.

My aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account over there in your country and let me know how much commission you will receive out of the total funds when transferred into your oversea bank account

You will diligently transfer the balance to me at once through another bank account number from another bank I will forward to you as soon as the funds transferred into your over sea bank account, after deducting your commission from the funds or I will come over to your country to meet with you for disbursement of the funds or we shall invested into any lucrative business out there in your country together.

Please keep this transaction safe and confidential as exposing this transaction will jeopardize my reputation in this Bank over the years.

I would like to hear from you in no distant time, as soon as you read this e-mail so that we can proceed without further delay .

Best Regards,

James Cooper

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