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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: iegam1983 <iegam1983@yeah.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:26:01 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Dear Sir,

Dear Sir,


I am a Staff with SECURITY AND FINANCE COMPANY in Germany. We had a foreign client (name with
held) who deposited a huge sum of money (US $ 45million dollars) with our security Company.


Eventually, this client was among the victims of EGYPT AIR BOEING 767 FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in USA, and ever since then we have not had any body coming for the claims as the next of kin a situation I have monitored closely with my position in the Company.

Having monitored this deposit and managed it over the years before his death, nobody has showed up as the next next kin for the past four year plus so I decided to remove the file to my private safe.


I now solicit for your assistance to present you as the next of kin as every other arrangement has being concluded by me and I only need a foreign partner to enable me move the fund to his account's.

If this proposal meet your interest, you're adviced to furnish me with your private telephone and fax numbers, and your full name and address, company or residential, so that I can computerize them to
tally with the next of kin column in our computer data base.

This deal does not have any risk attached to it, as I'm here to handle all the internal documentations.


I therefore request you to confirm your interest by a return message and I will furnish you with details.

Lastly, for the immediate take off of this transaction you have to confirm your willingness and readiness to assist me retrieve this deposit, and for your assistance in this transaction you will be entitled to 30% percent of the total sum and 10% percent will cover all the expenses incurred in the process of the transaction.


Please, reply me via my email address packer_russell@yahoo.com. Thanks,
I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards
Parker Russell

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