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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: "roy memphies "<roymemphies@memphies.usa>
Reply-To: roymemphies@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 11:03:26 -0700
Subject: finance and valued items

Dearest,
I'm Memphies Roy 17 years old from New Jersey.
I'm an orphans, I lost my parents while I was 3 years old. After the death of my parents, I was raised by an American consultant, a friend and colleague to my late Dad in the United State before he moved with me to Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. due to his job.
My step Dad did not have the opportunity to have a child of his own so I was privileged all the right as his only child. Now that he also passed away due to heart failure, I have lived and grow up for so many years in the same house with an Arab American Nanny who was looking after me, but later took me to a village in Abu Dhabi to live in a house bought for her by my late Dad. Now she is also very sick and effected with chronic cancer but we have managed to travel to Europe for a very important meeting with my late Dad notary.
My late dad representing notary who moved to Belgium from Abu Dhabi informed me that my late dad left some files and valuable information behind and I have traveled to Belgium and retrieved the file and other information including access to his corporate Email addresses as My late dad was a Consultant to a Private financial deposit and security institution in United State affiliated to the Arab Monetary Fund organization of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
I now discovered that my father left a secured box of valuable items and important amount of Money in his escrow vault. It was quoted that the Fund and valuable items belongs to him and his associate but it can be recovered at any time with my instruction.
I want to introduce you to the notary as my father's associate and close partner who should retrieve the Fund on behalf of my late Dad for a planned project set aside between them before he died. Though, these might require a slight process to get it done but please I'm soliciting you to recover the fund and then after, we will proceed to recover the other valuable items.
If you need a percentage I'm willing to offer you 35% of this total benefits and also allowing you to propose an investment plan to secure the fund in order to ensure my future and also take care of my sick mum who raised me. Please if you are interested, please due urgently reply to my email: ROYMEMPHIES@GMAIL.COM
I will be glad to have an urgent review of your comment and interest to my letter before we return to the village in Abu Dhabi where I now stay with the family of my sick mum who should not know about this confidential heritage for security reason. If you are financially capable-oriented, loyal and humble to contain the fund to your custody as I am willing to partner with you either by sharing of the fund and the other valuable items that may be left in the escrow vault or to consider partnering a prosperous and profitable investment with you and I will be able to visit you in few months when I am able and ready to do so.
If I consider that you are capable and trust worthy enough to working with you on this project, I will reply to your response from a private corporate Email address of my Dad which I understand is of a high security as to prove the legitimacy of this letter. Please note that all information contained in this letter remain confidential until a formal acceptance of this offer.
I am looking forward to receiving your positive response.

Sincerely
ROY MEMPHIES

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