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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: "Susan William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susanwilliam963@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:03:25 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear,

Hello Dear,

Compliment of the Weekend.

I am Susan William from London; I work with Royal Bank of
Scotland,This letter is highly privileged, and it requires your
immediate attention.

You are receiving this letter because your family name connected to a
deceased customer Engineer. Michael, who was a national of your
country.

Engineer . Michael was involved in a Plane crash with the wife and
Three children in 2003.Eng. Michael had a fixed-term Deposit with our
bank which worth 25.7 Million Euro Since the event of the Crash, none
of his extended family has been located for the claim of this money.
There is urgent need to present a beneficiary to the bank for the
claim of the inheritance.

The bank notified recent to their decision to declare the inheritance
to the government as their only option since there is no available kin
of the deceased to inherit the money.

Given to your nationality with Engineer. Michael, I want to present
you to the bank as the beneficiary for the inheritance.

Forward me your full contact details for more details, also we can
discuses of your % OK.

I look forward to your immediate response.

Kind Regards,

Susan William.

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