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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: Richard William <mrrwilliam00@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrtc232tc@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:09:56 +0200
Subject: Urgent Reply...



From: Mr. Richard William,

Attn: Sir/ Madam

I am Mr. Richard William; I am Chief investment consultant working with Lloyds
TSB Bank,London. This massage is strictly confidential and is for your attention
only. I wish to transfer the sum of Thirty Eight Million British Pounds Sterling
(£38 million GBP) which belong to Late Deceased, Christian Goetz

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 11 years in our Bank here without
anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person
to our deceased customer Christian Goetz (the owner of the account) who died a
long time ago with his supposed next of kin in air crash on 31st July 2000. The
Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the deceased
customer.

Through my investigation, I found out that nobody knows about this account. And
I'm his personal Account manager; I have with me all the files concerning this
fund. However, if you can be Honest/confidence to me, you should kindly send me
the following information, so that I will detail you on how we will conclude
this transaction within 7 working days; because all the necessary arrangement
has been made.

(1) Your Bank name.........
(2) Your Bank address............
(3) Your Account number even if it is an empty existing account is OK,...
(4) Your Account name........
(5) Swift code if any......
(6) Your full name......
(7) Your full residential/office address........
(8) Your private Tel numbers........ for easy communication.
(9) Your occupation..........
{10}Your country:.....

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and
you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made
for the completion of this Project. At the completion of this transaction, you
will be given 40% of the total amount of the money, while 50% will be my share
of the total amount and 10% set aside is in case of any expenses incurred in
this transaction.

I need a strong assurance from you that you will not let me down hence the money
is transferred into your account. Your urgent attention to this regards will be
highly appreciated.

God Bless You.
Mr. Richard William.


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