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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: Steven Wong <beth.silva@cleaner.com.br>
Reply-To: wongsteven73@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:47:31 -0300
Subject: RE From Steven Wong



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Mr. Steven Wong
Northville, Michigan (MI)
1ST ST, 42770,Northville Township.
Chief investment Consultant,
Dept.Of Offshore Mortgage Services,
Northern Bank Of Michigan

I work as the operational manager in account management section in charge
of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime
banks here in USA.I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail
and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to
transfer to overseas account (,000.000.00 USD) Thirty million United
States Dollars) I want to ask you,If you are not
capable to handle it quietly look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable and fit to provide either an
existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive
this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this
important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or in the future.

I am Mr.Steven Wong, presently promoted to Auditor General in one of the
banks here in USA. During the course of our
auditing last week,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in
the bank in 2000 and since 2011 nobody has operated
on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the owner of the account died
without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.

The owner of this account is an American and a great industrialist and a
resident of Alaska State, who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane, crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed
on January 31 2000, including his wife and only
daughter leaving nobody to claim the money. No other person knows about
this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the account is a secret account.
The total amount involved is Thirty million United States Dollars only
[,000.000.00] and we wish to transfer this money
into a safe account.I am revealing this to you with believe in God that
you will never let me down in this business, you
are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this
business,so please reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take urgently. I need your strong assurance that you
will never let me down,and the key bank official
who is deeply involved with me in this business.

I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach
of the law the bank official will destroy all documents of the transaction
immediately you receive this money leaving no
trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all
legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to
your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and
foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 70% will be for us I and the bank officials.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible if you are
interested,as well on replying send me your account
details with your private phone number together with your International
Passport or Drivers Lincens to enable me send an
application to the bank on your behalf,Bellow is the information you have
to send if you are interested in this deal.

Thank you for your time and attention.I look forward to hear from you
Yours,
Steven Wong

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