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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" <info@pipedrive.com>
Reply-To: "David" <davidharrison@contractor.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:40:17 +0000
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Take_a_look_at_Pipedrive?=


Dear Friend,

I am Mr. David Harrison the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign
Remittance Department in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent &amp;
confidential Business Proposition for you &amp; for our mutual interest.On
the 6th of March 2001,our Customer, an American National,late Jeremiah J.
Ahern , an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria,
deposited, a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch.

Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but
got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder, &amp; finally we discovered
from his contract employers NNPC, that late Jeremiah J. Ahern ,until his
death thirteen ( 13 ) years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack to American
Airline flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles,crashed into the North Tower
of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 people on board. All occupants of
the Airplane unfortunately lost their lives.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all
attempts to trace his Next of kin were rootless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that late Jeremiah J. Ahern , did not declare
any Next of kin in all his official documents.This sum US$32Million is still
floating in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. No one came forward to claim it.
According to Nigeria Laws, at the expiration of 13 years,the money will
revert to the Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to
claim the funds.

Consequently,my proposal is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in
as a Next of kin of late Jeremiah J. Ahern . This is simple. All I require
is your honest and co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from a breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on
your return email, the following information for the transfer in your favor

1. Your Full Name...............................................

2. Your contact address...................................

3. Your Tel/Fax Numbers:...............................

Let&apos;s consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus
1. I as the originator of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable
2.You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable Fund.

Most importantly, CONFIDENTIALITY as what I saw as the life wire to the
success of the transfer of this Fund must have to be emulated between you
and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you will no in anyway
expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends,
Colleagues and Co-Workers.I will also want you to send your reply to this
email: (davidharrison@contractor.net) as soon as you get this mail to enable
us discuss on the modalities and processes for success of this transaction..
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding. I wait for your
kind response.

Regards.


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