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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: adelsanhoury@superdada.com
Date: 6 Feb 2006 09:08:06 -0000
Subject: From: Mohamed Adel El Sanhoury


From: Mohamed Adel El Sanhoury

General Manager, UBE.

United Bank of Egypt.

106, Kasr El-Aini st,

Po box 85 Magles El-Shaab

Cairo center building

Cairo, Egypt

Telex: 20060/20061 ube un

Email:adel_sanhoury@123mail.cl

Date:6th February, 2006





Dearest,





Compliments of the season



I am the manager United Bank of Egypt (UBE). in my bank I discovered an abandoned sum of $33.3usd (thirty three million three hundred thousand U.S.dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer, by name, Mr. Bob Robert Chapman, African area director for Wycliffe bible translators international, who died along with his wife,Ruth Chapman, in January 2000 in a Kenyan plane crash in the coast of Abidjan,Ivory coast.



Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.



Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forit and I don't want this money to go into federal government account as unclaimed bill.The banking law and the guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six years the money will be transferred into banking 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 and an

Egyptian cannot stand as next of kin for a foreigner. It is agreed that a certain percentage of this money will be for you as my foreign partner.Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage agreed.



Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged. you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank account number and location wherein the money will be remitted.



Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the text of the application. As soon as you receive this letter, you should contact me through my SECURITY e-mailaddress,adel_sanhoury@123mail.cl



Trusting to hear from you immediately.



Yours faithfully



Mohamed Adel El Sanhoury

General Manager, UBE.



Note: all transactions will be through email as calls are strictly

monitored down hear in the complex.

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