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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: Steve
Reply-To: <steve.reid22@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:04:12 +0530
Subject: PLEASE CONSIDER VERY IMPORTANT.

Greetings to you,

This request may seem strange and unsolicited but I will crave your indulgence and pray that you view it seriously, I want you to partner with me in getting back the sum of (£5,200,000.00 GBP) left behind in a fixed deposit account in our bank by a Citizen of India, Late Mr.Sanjay Krishna. If this will endanger your position and reputation, I would not have contacted you, This is safe and beneficial. I am presently the operations manager of our Bank here in London, please do not expose this transaction for any reason, I will give you more information about this transaction once you show your interest. Late Mr.Sanjay Krishna lived and worked in the City of Manchester here as an International businessman.

He deposited in our bank the sum of Five Million Two Hundred Great British Pounds (£5,200,000.00 GBP) as fixed deposit. This deposit has long matured and has gone dormant for about eight years. the bank have tried to reach him and could not his telephone number could not be reached, emails sent to him kept bouncing back as undelivered and the bank never got any response from the letters posted to his residential address here in Britain. This issue prompted the bank to carry out an investigation about his whereabouts since he did not provide any next of kin or beneficiary at the time he made the deposit with the bank.

But when i was employed four years ago I later realized with shook that he died sometime in November 2008 of heart related illness in Manchester Hospital through my independent investigation, His death was not reported to our bank from that time till now. However I have on my own made several enquirers at your embassy here in United kingdom and no information of him was found, which I find weird. After sometime i went through his file and got his lawyer information which he told me about how the dead of this man and the document related to this fund and his death certificate, I have discussed with the lawyer about this that i have found his/her relative who can stand as a beneficiary/next of kin to claim this money laying here for long time, so I want you to apply as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the deposit amount from our bank. It does not matter whether you knew him or not, it does not matter if you have any kind of relationship with him or not, I will guide you all the way to make this claim. This is not a matter of being greedy or having ugly morals, it is not the best to leave the money to eventually end up in government hands while we have the opportunity to live better with it.

This is a risk free transaction, as I am the operations manager of our Bank and the final approval of your application will be done by my department with my influence. Once it is approved, you will have the right to this money. And when it is transferred to you, I will come over to your country to meet with you in order to share the money which will be into two equal parts (50:50) for each of us after deducting all the costs incurred in getting the money and also i will send the lawyer his part also for helping to provide the necessary document needed to claim this fund. Everything will be done legally, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the copies of the documents relating to the fixed deposit of late Mr. Sanjay Krishna that you will file to the bank to back up this claim. All I require now is your honest cooperation to enable us to make this successful and we have to do this within shortest time possible.

If you are willing to do this with me, write back and I shall inform you on what next to do. If nothing is done immediately, the money will be returned to the government treasury as an abandoned fund and we will gain nothing from it. I am waiting for your consent in order to tell you the next step towards getting the fund.

Thanks for your kind understanding and cooperation.


Best regards

Steve Reid

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