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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: Mr Winston <admin@freecleaningbid.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:54:30 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear
 
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of(£4.6 Million GBP) Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Great British Pound in one of the Prime Banks here, this is our chance to have this money,this is an urgent deal between me and you and it can be done within the next seven working days, I am Mr Winston Osuchukwu  I am a senior manager in the Eco Bank Senegal,I am also in charge of General Capital Unit of the bank here in Africa, during the course of our auditing  ,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in our bank since 2002 and till date no body has operated on this account for some years now ,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago without leaving a[Heir/WILL] hence the funds is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing
 
The owner of this account is ( Engineer Edward Mendez ) a Foreign National, before his death, he was a management consultant here in West Africa and he died since 2008, no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his sudden death he was a management consultant, Since I hardly know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner to stand and apply as his next of kin because this money can not be approved to a local person here as his next of kin, without valid international foreign passport, 
 
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced of your capability and assurance that you will never let me down therefore  I will present you to my bank as the cousin of Engineer Edward Mendez who is the account owner)
 
At the conclusion of this project, we may proceed into an investment as equal partners of which you are to guide it  as I  will resign shortly after the transfer if you may wish or we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 55% for me, Regarding moral justification of the fund ,I would not want you to consider this illegal as everything will follow the due process of normal banking transfer,also I am there as an insider in the bank to make sure everything works smoothly
 
If you had been the victim Certainly you would not be happy having your hard earned fund shared among government as an unclaimed deposit, I believe they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this fund to help the less privileged and the needy in the society I look forward to your earliest response
 
Winston Osuchukwu
 
IF YOU ARE  INTERESTED. PLSASE CONTACT ME IN MY PRIVSTE EMAIL (winstonnosuchukwu@outlook.com)

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