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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: Jean Nicolas Jean Nicolas <nico.5555@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:00:23 +0000
Subject: Hello My Dear Good Friend,


Hello My Dear Good Friend,

my name is Jean Nicolas ,a national of Lebanon sadad,i am
working as an accountant general and head of the Auditing Dept of Bank
of London.Already i have forwarded to you my
international passports for your view.So i will be here insided the
bank to back you up as the original next of kin to our late depositor
Engr.Miller Carlos Hector. to Engr.Miller , a
National of your Brazil, who used to work with an oil servicing
company here in London .

My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill
fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of London in January 2009 in
which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several
inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended
relatives but has been unsuccessful After several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see
if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. Of
particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in, where
the deceased has an account valued at about ($6.5million US dollars).
They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank
will declare the account unserviceable and thereby send the funds to
the bank treasury.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
years now, I will seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account valued at
($6.5million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I can
share the money. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
seeing this deal through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. In your reply mail,
I want you to give me your full names, address, date of birth,
telephone and fax numbers for proper communications.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation
Hoping to receive your reply to my private E-mail (nico59066@gmail.com)
Jean Nicolas


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