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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. David Hinn" <asuccess76@alltoinbox.net>
Reply-To: david.hinn1959@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:46:18 GMT
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE

Dear friend,
   
How are you today? I am David Hinn, an assistant finance security officer working in Coin Finance Security Group London. I am a British national and I live London. I need your help and support to transfer the sum of Forty Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars US$40,500.000.00 from the finance security company to your bank account in your Country. You will be rewarded with 40% of the total sum for your partnership and I will come over to meet you in your country, for sharing of the money, immediately the money is transferred to your bank account. Can you handle this?
   
The money was abandoned by a late customer Alan Williams, a British tycoon who died with his family in car accident on 20th of October 2008. The money was left unclaimed in the Coin Finance Security Group London for safe keeping without a beneficiary.
     
You are to stand as beneficiary of the unclaimed funds, to enable the Coin Finance Security Group to facilitate the fund release and transfer to your bank account. I need your personal information and ID to re-profile the funds with your data, to enable the finance company to transfer the sum to you. The whole process of the transaction will take not more than 10 days to successfully complete the fund transfer to your bank account.
   
I will send you more details about the transaction as soon as I get your response, to enable us to begin the transaction. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
   
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. David Hinn
 

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