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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: "Nomem Ali" <nomemali04@msn.com>
Reply-To: nomemali@tlen.pl
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:18:30 +0000
Subject: BELIVE THIS

Mr. Nomem Ali,
BRUSSLES 1210
ECO BANK PLC
Dear Friend,
STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am Mr.Nomem Ali, The manager Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance
Department of the ECO BANK OF NIGERIA.I am writing this letter to ask for
your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my
department We discovered an abandoned sum of
$17,000,000.00 Seventeen Million United States Dollars only in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family of a wife and two children in September 2001 in a Plane crash.
Since we heard of his death we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir because we cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines Unfortunately neither
their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said
fund Upon this discovery I and other officials in my department have agreed
to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as
the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained
account with our bank otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be
asstated thus 20 %for you as foreign partner 75 % for us the officials in my
department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences
incurred by us and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer I and one of my colleagues
will come to your country an mind our share It is from our 75 % we intend to
invest in estate and import Agricultura Machineries into my country as a way
of recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction we require you to immediately indicate your
interest by a return e-mail and enclose private contact telephone number fax
number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable
us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary
approvals before the transfer can be made ,mean while the assocata financial
security company incharge for the release of the fund has the fund to your
country.
Note also this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its
nature
I look forward to receive your prompt response
Yours Faithfully
Mr.Nomem Ali.
ECO BANK PLC


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