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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.Andre Edmond" <mr.andreedmond@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mr.Andre Edmond" <mr_andreedmond@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:36:56 +0900 (JST)
Subject: My good friend,




My good friend,

My name is Mr. Andre Edmond, Director of special duties in a bank here in Paris, France. I am account holder to engineer Alexander national of your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Paris.
 

My client, his family, and their children involved in the ill fated Paris airways which crash in the coast of Eritrea on October 18 2009 in which all passengers on board died during one of their holiday visit to that country with his family. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful.
 


After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you of particular interest is this HUGE DEPOSIT with our bank here in Paris France, where the deceased deposited the said fund amount of TWENTY SIX MILLION (€26 MILLION EUROS) in a fixed deposit account.
 
They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the said fund unserviceable and there by send the fund to the bank treasury. But hence the fund was deposited in the fixed deposit suspense account, but I am the account holder to the late depositor of the fund because I am a closed family friend to them but I cannot do anything because the bank do not knows me as the next of kin, I am only a director here in this bank.
 
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 2 years now, I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of these fund valued at (€26MILLION EUROS)can be transfer to you and then you and I can share the money.
 
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. In your reply mail, I want you to give me your full names, your bank account details information where the fund will be transfer, telephone number where I can be reaching you in this transaction. If you can handle this with me write back immediately for more details.
 
Thanks for your co-operation
Sincerely,
Mr. Andre Edmond

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