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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "David Sang" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dsang545@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 02:34:27 +0700
Subject: Hello My Friend Can i Trust You?

Dear Friend,

How are you and your family? I am Mr. David W. Sang an American, i worked
With a powerful former president who is now standing trial, while working
With him, he deposited some money in my name so that whenever he leaves
Office he will collect this money back me from, though during the deposit
it was stated that the deposit cannot be withdrawn by me and was kept
Secret and with a condition that will not permit me to withdraw it myself
For security reason. Please now the man is out of office and will never be a
President again and is in jail, so now i want to withdraw this money now hence i
Contacted you, I have an interesting offer for you, to help me apply as the
Beneficiary of deposit which was kept in Cambodia in a security company
Through an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) The NGO did not know that
The content of the box is money i am trying to contact you as a good and
Honest person that will assist me to retrieve the money from the security
Company out of Cambodia.

Please this money is kept under non-circumvention and a non-disclosure
Agreement with the security company. All i need from you is your honesty
And sincerity. I will write to the company to introduce you as my nominated
beneficiary of the deposit because i cannot retrieve the deposit myself due to
the terms and conditions attached to it. I can only withdraw it through a foreign
beneficiary.

Please if you are interested kindly let me know. The amount involved is
$22.8M US dollars and this you shall take 30% of the money and give me
the rest after you retrieved it.

Please you must keep this to yourself alone and if you are interested do
let me know so that i will tell you the process which is very simply.
Please send me your full name and contact telephone for further
Explanation.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Best Regard,
David Sang.

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