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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: DON ANTONIO SANCHEZ VICARIO <don.antonios2015@gmail.com>
Reply-To: DON ANTONIO SANCHEZ VICARIO <don.antonios2015@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 02:14:26 +0900 (JST)
Subject: URGENT REPLY


Dear Friend,
 
I am Don. Antonio Sanchez
Vicario, a member of board of directors also act as manager bills and exchange
at the foreign remittance department of LA CAIXA BANK here in Madrid, Spain. I
have a business proposal which I believe that it will be a very Good
opportunity for both of us.  So I decided to contact you on this business
opportunity in our bank. The business is this, I discovered an abandoned sum
of, NINE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ($9,300,000.00) in
our safety deposit vault that belongs to one of your country national who died
along with his entire family in a car accident on the Barcelona Highway Spain
in December 2010. This prominent customer of our bank happens to share the same
FAMILY NAME with you. 
  
Since we got the information
about his death, we have been expecting any of his relative to come over and
claim his money because the management would not release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines
but unfortunately, I learnt that all his family died alongside with him at the
motor accident leaving nobody behind for the claim. 
  
Since you have the same
surname with this deceased customer, you can easily make this deal with me; I
will give you all the secret information of this deposit which will help you to
claim this money as the next of kin. it is therefore upon this discovery that I
decided to make this business proposal to you and release  the money to
you  as the next of kin to the deceased since nobody is coming for it
 and I don’t want this money to go into the banks treasury as unclaimed
funds or declared to the government of Spain, once this is done, the government
of Spain will confiscate the funds, which is not good for both of us instead
its better for us to do the deal and map out something for charity from the
money and share the rest.
  
I agree that 50 % of this
money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect of your acceptance to do
this business with me, 10% will go for charity homes and refugees and while the
remaining  40 % would be for me and my family. 
  
Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as the next of kin of the deceased indicating your interest
of claim of your inherited funds. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to
you the text of the application which you will fax to the bank. I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is a risk free that you should
not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made
perfectly me. 
 
You should understand that
this should be kept very confidential, let it be between me and you. This is
the only way we can achieve success.  I will level up the whole arrangement
here in the bank for the transfer to be approved immediately and released to
you.
       
                     
                     
                     
  
I wait urgently for your reply
 
Best Regard,
 
Don Antonio Sánchez Vicario

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