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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: "Davis Wayne" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davis.wayne68@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:09:59 -0700
Subject: Re-Your Response

Cnr Simmons Street
Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: +27-84-317-8544
Fax: 0027-86-566-678

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Sir,

This is a personal letter directed to you and I request that it be treated as such. I am Advocate Davis K. Wayne, a solicitor at law and a personal attorney to Late Client, a citizen of your country here in referred to as my client, who worked as an independent contractor with mining companies here in Johannesburg.

On the 20th of November 2010 my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along Pretoria Road and all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of his extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful. Even my several visit to your Embassy did not yield any fruitful result hence I have contacted you to assist in receiving this fund into your account valued at $9,500,000.00 (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) left behind by my client with a Bank before it gets confisticated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this amount was deposited by my late client.

The Bank contacted me and asked that I as the attorney should present his surviving next of kin so that they will release the funds left in their custody to them as the Government Law as provided that at the expiration of 7 years the fund will revert to the ownership of the Government, if nobody applies to claim the fund.

I recently discovered that in all his files in my chambers that he never mentioned having any relatives nor cousin’s so I decided to source for a reputable and trustworthy person, hence I contacted you.

My proposition to you is to present you to the bank as the Surviving Next of kin and beneficiary of my deceased client so that the bank will pay this $9,500,000.00 (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)to you so that we can share the amount on a mutually agreed percentage of 40% for me 40% for you and 20% for Charity works. All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin will be provided by me.

I will guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, Please do get back to me immediately you received this letter via my email below so that I can give you comprehensive details on how we can proceed.

Regards and God bless
Davis Wayne
Direct Telephone: +27-84-317-8544


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