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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "MARTINI EVANS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mms_118@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:58:54 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend ,,,

Dear Friend,

I will introduce myself once again.I am Martini Evans a private financial consultant /Account portfolio manager of FUNDS WORTH LTD,Ipswich UK.And i Happen to have managed a particular account for a Resident Foreigner, here in the United Kingdom, who died In
the state,leaving in our care a sizable amount in a domiciliary United States Dollars
Investment ACC. According to the next of kin reference he left, refer to you as the beneficiary to this funds.
the second transfer of the fund are Ready to Transfer to you the Second Twenty Three
Million, Three Hundred And Twenty Thousand United States Dollars
($23,320,000), interest not inclusive, into your account, we have in recent months made the first Ten million on the 5Th.July, 2009.

We would like to confirm once again if this second amount Should go into the same
bank, POST BANK U.S.A. ACCOUNT NUMBER#: 873 22407 with Branch number BSB # 084 707.USA.

I urgently expect your implicit cooperation as soon as you get this message so that
we can advice the the transfer.before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the Finance House here in the United Kingdom. The Finance House has
already issued a Government Mandatory formality notice to unserviceable Account or have
the account confiscated and this should expire within a month.

Martini Evans

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