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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: "National Lottery Board" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <daniel.mcpherson@representative.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:31:27 -0800
Subject: Re: Funds



Dear beneficiary,

Greetings to you from Malaysia.

My name is Peng Wong, a managerial officer with the Citi-Bank Group Malaysian office. I am writing this letter to seek for your support and co-operation to execute this business opportunity in my department. After annual audit last month in my branch I discovered documents of a late client Andreas Schranner, who was a German business magnate who made a numbered fixed deposit with this branch valued $12 million USD (Twelve Million United States Dollars) and I was lucky to have the necessary documents with me. I discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Andreas Schranner, died in the plane crash Monday, 31 July 2000, (an Air France jet liner) with his entire family and other passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the website below for BBC NEWS:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm


According to the Malaysian banking laws after the expiration of fifteen (15) years, if nobody applies for the claim it will get confiscated by the State Treasury office. I am seeking for your support to stand as next of kin/ beneficiary to claim these funds so that we move it into useful investments. I am ready to give you 40% of the total funds while the 60% would be for myself and other bank officials involved in this business proposal deal.

You will provide offshore account where the funds will be transferred to so that we can conclude on what business ventures we can invest on.

You are to provide me with the following details if you are interested:

(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile/Fax Number.
(2) Your Full Name:
(3) Current Resident Address.
(4) Your Private E-mail Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age and Sex:
(7) Your Nationality:

Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction without any delay. Please discard this message if you are not interested. One Passionate appeal I will make to you is to keep this confidential and try not to discuss this matter of importance with anybody. If you have any reason(s) to reject this offer, please destroy this message as any leakage of this information will be too bad for me at my work place because I am the senior manager of the bank's Malaysian office.

The internet has been grossly abused by scam artist and miscreants whose intention is to hurt. In as much as one should be careful, same time we should not allow negative to kill the positive potential in a realistic business, please read my proposal carefully. This is 100% Risk-free business proposal.

Thanks for your kind understanding and possible co-operation.



Yours faithfully,

Peng Wong

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