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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: =?UTF-8?Q?=62=72=6F=77=6E=20=62=72=6F=77=6E?= <donaldbrown1002@walla.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:45:09 +0300
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=54=72=75=73=74=65=64=20=44=65=61=6C=20=28=6E=6F=6E=20=73=70=61=6D=29?=








Trusted Deal,

I am Mr. Good luck Favor an auditor to a well-known bank here in my country; one of their accounts withholding balance of ($20,450,000 us dollars) has been dormant and have not been operated for many years by anybody.

From investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account an American, by name Mr. David Morgan died many years ago and since then nobody has done anything regarding to the claiming of his funds because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds, also information from the National Immigration, states that he was single on entry to Nigeria. No trace to his relatives.

With my position and your corporation we will secretly discuss this matter on how to transfer this money to your account to be agreed as reliable foreign partners, i thus propose to do business with you, for you to stand as the next of kin of these funds for the deceased and the funds will be released to you after due processes have been followed as the next of kin to late David Morgan.

This transaction is totally risk free and troubles as one of the staffs presently working with the Bank promised to give all vital in formations over the funds and his death if you are ready as the funds does not originate from, drug, money laundry and terrorism or any other illegal act, on your interest, let me hear from you.

We mutually agreed that should you provide a trusted account and serve as the beneficiary, 20% of the fund will be yours or your company, while 10 will be set aside for expenses (internal and external) that may occur in the cause of remitting the money into a foreign account, my colleague in the Bank Mr. Thompson promised to be active and also supportive to expenses that may come up.

The modalities for remitting the fund into your account, as the NEXT OF KIN TO LATE DAVID MORGAN, to accord this transaction, the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the parties involved, all the fund approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your name or company as the NEXT OF KIN TO LATE DAVID MORGAN.

In your reply, the requirements i need from you and how the fund will be sent to you as the next of kin. Are as follows,

FULL NAMES AND ADDRESS.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND STATE.
PERSONAL AND PRIVATE PHONE NO.

Thanks,
Yours faithfully.

 

N/B. My colleague’s name is Donald Brown, so we decided to send this mail to through his mail box; you have to contact us at the email given below.


MR. GOODLUCK FAVORME
+2348080624439

goodluckfavorme@hotmail.co.uk

 

 


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