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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: MRS.JOY SMITH <iyk_a@yahoo.co.id>
Reply-To: desakwydi@yahoo.co.id
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 03:02:09 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK URGENT

My Dear Thank you very much for your kindness and understanding, by accepting my unsolicited e-mail, please i want you to understand that you are the first person i am discussing this transaction with and which i will never discuss it with a third party because i was warn to keep this highly confidential and make sure i do not talk about it with more than one business partner for both side security reason. to avoid any kind of interception along the line, and i will advise you to keep this transaction highly confidential until we complete it soon, only if you will be more interested about it. My dear, i was in Indonesia Jakarta last year 2014, and i went there to seek for a business partnership for investment but the lady that i was hoping on disappointed me and she joint to another set of investors and along the Line i was linked to one Mr.Ismail, unluckily for him he felt sick, an 70 years old Man, and could not survive the illness and that was how i lost him, before i was called from London to come over for the beneficiary profile up date, because there was a lot of irregularities on the beneficiary file after the death of my husband and the condition at hand is that before i will leave London i must make sure that the claim is completed because the box consignment is over due for claim, to avoid lost and which nobody will bear the responsibilities if anything happens to the box consignment, because of that i have to stay back while i seek from here a business partner from to complete the claim of my late husband inherited box consignment of funds $5.5 million dollars, deposited with social security company HSBC SECURITY HOME PLC London as a personal effect. I want you to stand for me over there in your country as my representative, next of kin beneficiary to receive the box consignment on my behalf for the investment in your country, and after you received the box consignment and confirmed it, i shall start arranging for my coming to meet you in your country from there we shall continue to the next step on how to continue on the investment And i have agreed to offer you 25% after the transaction is successful and 25% for me and my son, then 50% we shall use to set up new investment and both of us will manage the business together to grow more in the future as we pray for success in the near future. to come but before you can be able to stand for this transaction legally as my next of kin beneficiary for the claim and receiving of the box consignment to your address, i will have my lawyer here in London to make all legal change of ownership on your name from the original documents to back you up for the claim to enable you stand as the next beneficiary, then after claim the security company will have the diplomat to deliver the box consignment to your address in your country safely, as soon as you received it you let me know and i will start arranging for my coming to meet you over there. please as soon as you indicate interested on this message get back to me and i will forward to you some legal proves and my personal identifications as a trust business and to prove you that i am who i am and honest to you, if you dont mind drop me your mobile number with your response over this offer, i am waiting. please make sure you keep this highly confidential Thanks Yours Joy

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