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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: emijo@tiscali.cz
Reply-To: emijohnson01@yahoo.it
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:34:18 -0800
Subject: Hello Sir.

FROM THE DESK OF MR JOHNSON EMI.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS MANAGER,
MARCHANT BANK OF AFRICA (MBA)
HEADQUARTERS,
214, TINUBU SQUARE-LAGOS

Dear Friend,

Good-day to you.My name is Emi.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of MERCHANT BANK OF AFRICA (M.B.A)here in Nigeria.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$17M dollars
(Seventeen Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreigncustomer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,Germany)
who worked with Shell Development Nigeria and died while on holiday
in Germany with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless some body appliesfor it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at
the plane

crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transferred into
the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner.
I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect for
theprovision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 50% would be for me. Thereafter, I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. To enable
the immediatetransfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to
the
bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank
name, your bank account number,your private telephone and
fax number for easy and effective communication and location
where the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You
should contact me immediately you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Faithfully,

MR JOHNSON EMI.


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