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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: Pierre Didier <info@mail.com>
Reply-To: pierre.didier007@consultant.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:36:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Sir/ Madam, Private Confidential From Pierre Didier



From: Mr Pierre Didier
Account/Auditing Department
Canada
Dear Sir/Madam

I am Mr Pierre Didier, I am a staff in one of the banks in (CANADA). I
am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and confidential
business proposal which I believe will profit both of us after
completion. I contacting you after a careful thought that you might be
capable of handling this top secret business transaction, which I
explained below. I need your urgent assistance to claim and transfer
the sum of ($10.5Million) immediately to your account deposited by one
of our late customers Mr. Andreas Schranner Md for years.

Andreas Schranner Md, was a German property magnate who died long side
with his entire family, his wife Maria, daughter Andréa Erich, and her
husband is a Christian, and their children Katharina and Maximilian,
all died in Plane Crash, which crashed on Monday,25th July, 2000 by
CONCORDE AIRLINE [Flight AF4590].See the
website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm). this fund has
been dormant (in-active) for years in our bank here without anybody
coming for it and now I decided to use this as an opportunity to
enrich myself by associating with you to claim the fund and have it
transferred to your account. with the new Government of Canada
financial laws, if the funds are not claimed by any one or his family
relations, the money will be mark as an abandoned fund and will go
into Government treasury as an abandoned fund, this is the reason why
I decided to contact you to negotiate with me to stand as the next of
kin to the deceased and beneficiary of the funds so that my Bank will
release the fund to you as the nearest person as all attempts to trace
his relatives were fruitless.

My position here as an account officer requires me to investigate
which l did and discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare
any next of kin or relation in all his official bank deposit documents
in my bank and according to the Government of Canada financial Law,
the money will revert to the ownership of the Canada government
treasure if nobody applies to claim the fund. To avoid this money
being sent to the Canada Government treasure account as unclaimed
funds, I decided to seek your quick assistance to stand as the next of
kin so that this amount would be released in your name as the next of
kin and paid into your account, therefore, if you would be interested
to handle this confidential transaction with me, do reply me through
this e-mail:(pierre.didier007@consultant.com), I will give you all the
details including your percentage for your assistance. keep this
proposal as a top secret or delete it if you are not interested at all.
I look forward to hear from you.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Pierre Didier



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