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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: "David Graham"<investdgrad@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <investdgrah@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 04:40:18 -0600
Subject: FUND INVESTMENT WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE..

Attention Sir,



Hope you are sound in health and I do believe that your business is simultaneously moving. My name is Mr. David Graham I worked as a senior manager in an agricultural company in the United States. However the purpose of my contacting you is to seek your mutual aid in a project proposal.



Let me simply be more elaborate to your understanding because I do believe that you are reliable and can be most trusted. During my service I worked under one of the company directors a Philippine who was gruesomely murdered in Syria by the ISIS Militia group during a business trip to the Middle East. Meanwhile before his horrible death just as if he knew he would die in such a grisly manner we deposited the sum of $75.9M in a private security vault in Europe which we intended to establishing investments in some parts of the continent .



Though I am presently facing a serious health condition with my age and due to the present scenario cannot travel outside the country.



Thus I am contacting you in order to provide you with the contact information of the agent for you to personally claim the fund and keep it in your custody and then, you in your vast business expertise shall propose the most lucrative investment to channel the fund into.



The most painful part of my life is that unbelievably at my age I am childless and my wife has suffered serious problem with her kidneys and her blood pressure is still down and all medications still suspended.



I don't want her to be confined more at the hospital for long time till she gets good progress, So we decided to strictly confined her at home and she is getting intravenous drips to boost her blood pressure but it may take longer than necessary to bring it up to normal and kept stable and medications reprogrammed to her system; therefore part of this fund during the proposed investment, apart from the little one I will be using for our medications and upkeep, will be channeled to the Charity.



Therefore I am sincerely waiting for your response for further details and I hereby attached copies of my identity for your perusal and acquaintance sake.



Finally upon your anticipated response accepting to handle this project I will further furnish you with the required details to proceed, but please you must keep this project with you very confidentially because apart from the deceased director, I am the only person that has the knowledge of this fund and its present position



I will like to also have your private phone number for easy communications



Looking forward to your response



David Graham

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