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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: Paul Marrow <pmarrow@gmail.com>
Reply-To: paulmarrow629@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:18:55 -0700
Subject: Partnership

Hello Dear,

How are you doing, I am sorry for barging into your privacy. I am
writing this email, hoping that you will read and understand it with an
open mind, let me introduce myself properly, my name is Mr. Paul Marrow,
I'm
the General Manager of a front line bank here in London, I am 57 years
and happily married to Mrs. Julian Marrow, we are blessed with two boys
and one girl. We live at Unit 23 Nathan way, London SE 28 OBQ, United
Kingdom.

I have been searching for someone whom I can trust , so that we can
pull this very important deal through. There is an abandoned sum of 15
million pounds (15MGBP) belonging to one of our foreign customers Bill
Murray , an American citizen . He was dealing in Gold and real estate
business while he lived. The customer died in 2009 in a ghastly auto
crash and our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come up
to claim the money, but non has come till this moment. The practice here
is that if an account is abandoned and there
is no claim put forward , the bank converts it to their personal use as
the account will be declared unserviceable.

The main reason I contacted you and asked for your assistance in this
transaction is the fact that the bank has no justification to inherit
the funds, as an insider in the bank I have all the information that we
may need to apply for the transfer, without facing any risk, if we do
not claim the funds the bank will confiscate the funds and make
themselves richer, but we can make this claim and invest the proceed
together, I firmly believe that we can open up a company through the
proceeds of this transaction and create more job opportunities to better
the lives of others as well as ours. I am certain the bank will oblige
and release the money to you and I will be assisting in the background.

All I need from you is your honest cooperation and assistance for us to
make this deal successful, because I can not do it alone, I want to
officially introduce you to the bank as next of kin / beneficiary to the
deceased's estate, I have all the documents that the bank may require
from you to prove that you are the next of kin / beneficiary, with your
full information such as name and civil address, phone and fax numbers.
I have to upload the information here on our bank`s database, so that
nothing will stop the bank from transferring the funds into your account
as long as you're willing to follow my instructions, I am here as an
insider I know what it takes to perform this operation.

Do not entertain any fears, this transaction is 100% risk free, all I
need do is to ask my lawyer to go to court here in London to legalize
all documents in my possession in your name just to protect you from any
breech of the law.

My interest in this deal, is that I intend to invest part of my share in
your country, so I'll be with you as soon as the funds are transferred
to your account in order to have my share, as I suggest the sharing
formula to be 50% for me while 45% goes to you,and 5% will be set aside
for any expenses made as we progress, I hope everything is ok by you?
Please,I would like to know what business you think we can invest into
in your country, as I intend to make you my managing partner until such
a time that I will retire from my profession of banking and go into
full time private business, which will be in about three years time,
remember that your help is seriously needed here, as you know, the
economic policy of your country better than I.

As you know this to be a partnership, I will need us to have a signed
and sealed agreement, so I need the
requested information to draft our agreement as well as do the paper
work involved. The information I need are as follows.
(1) Your complete residential address
(2)A scanned copy of your international passport
(3)Your direct/ mobile phone number (s)
(4)Your Full Names

Please respond now, so I can send you a draft agreement guiding our
partnership so that you can review it and get back to me for us to
proceed. This transaction will be completed in the next few days as soon
as you start by responding immediately.

I will wait for your quick response and I am 100% ready to give you more
detailed information, therefore feel very free to ask questions if there
is anything you do not understand. I will send you a scanned copy of my
international passport for your records as soon as I get your reply ,
Finally, you must keep this transaction confidential between you and I
and if you think you have a more secured email address which only you
can access, let me have it.

Thanking you in advance for your good understanding and assistance.

Sincerely,
Paul Marrow

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