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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: TERRY WILL <terrywill012@gmial.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:18:12 -0500
Subject: GET BACK TO ME NOW

Dear Friend, My name is Mr.Terry Will,I am a banker and Senior Manager Foreign Bill with Wema Bank (Nig) PLC; I am the personal Accounts Manager to your Late cousin ENGINEER (Michael Coleman) a National of your country,who is a contractor with the DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS. Here in after referred to as my client. On 30 JAN 2012, my client, his wife, and their two children were involved in the Dana airways flight with registration number 5Y-BEN which departed from Abuja to destination Lagos and they all family died in this fatal Air crash, Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended Relatives, but to no avail.In view of these several unsuccessful attempts, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared un serviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged, particularly the Wema Bank (Nig) PLC. Where the deceased had an account Valued at about ($2.5 million u s dollars) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin. Or have the account confiscated within the next Fifteenth official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives. I seek your consent and utmost confidentiality to present you as the next of kin of the deceased. so that the proceeds of this account valued at(12.5 million US Dollars) can be paid to you ,then you and me Can share the money on the ration.60% to me and 40% to you also note that. we might seek in this transaction an attorney who will be contracted to help us re validate and notarize all the relevant legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through by keeping this translations very close to your heart until the fund is released to you. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. Yours faithfully, Mr Terry Will ashishsingh.170294@gmail.com, ashishtdr@gmail.com, ashleycooper@bell.net, ashlin1819@gmail.com, ashok23555@gmail.com, ashokganji89@gmail.com, ashokkumar676@gmail.com, ashokm411@gmail.com, ashoksoma@gmail.com, ashraybali@gmail.com, ashritha.it@gmail.com, ashuavi07@gmail.com, ashucool12@gmail.com, ashuklaup0326@gmail.com, ashutosh0710@gmail.com, ashutosh11939@gmail.com, ashutosh19794@gmail.com, ashutosh1994@yahoo.co.in, ashutosh9843@gmail.com, ashwani021994@gmail.com, ashwanikumarkashyap22@gmail.com, ashween996@gmail.com, ashwin.gollapalli@gmail.com, ashwini.bonagiri5@gmail.com, ashwininimmala972@gmail.com, ashwinkr007@gmail.com, ashysnacky@gmail.com, asim.syed63@gmail.com, asimbigd@gmail.com, asish.244@gmail.com, asitkvjp@gmail.com, asmaditi.singh0@gmail.com, asmina94@gmail.com, asoma1985@gmail.com, asoma@internfever.com, asprzealinformatics@gmail.com, asrithasingiri@gmail.com, aswani.nani@gmail.com, aswin.kalavala@needatechnologies.com, aswinis27@ymail.com, athakur185@gmail.! com, athenarehorst01@msn.com, atif5801@gmail.com, atillabarsbay@hotmail.com, atmabit.pattnaik25@gmail.com, atprone@yahoo.com, atreyu.nbs04@yahoo.co.uk, atrivera02@yahoo.com, atrix62@hotmail.fr, atul.g019@sjmsom.in

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