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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: azeez ahmed <azeez702@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:19:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: REPLY ASAP TO


FROM MR.AZEEZ AHMED,THE DIRECTOR IN
CHARGE OF AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL
BANK LTD. ACCRA GHANA WEST AFRICA.


Dear ,
I humbly crave your indulgence in sending you this
email and should it not meet your business or personal
ethics, please accept my apologies in advance. How are
you,and your family,i hope fine?
My name is Mr.Azeez Ahmed, the the director in
charge of auditing and accounting section of I.C.B,
International Commercial Bank Ltd Accra Ghana, West Africa.
I am writing this letter to solicit your support and
assistance to carry out a project in one of our
numerous branches where lying in an in-active account
is the sum of $11,000.00M Eleven Million US
dollars belonging to a foreign customer by name
Dr.Hans Rudolf a german nationality who died with his
wife and two kids in a ghastly air crash. Since he
died, the Bank has been expecting his next of kin to
come forward for necessary actions in respect to funds
claiming.

Unfortunately, after investigations, we found out
that he has no family members who are aware of the
existence of such an amount, and as such have decided
to contact you,and do business with you if you won't
let me down.

You stand in as the next of kin of late Dr. Hans
Rudolf, and then the money will be released to you,and
tranfered into your account in your country after the
due processes have been followed,and you invit me to
your country for the sharing of the funds according to
percentages. Obviously I do not want this money to go
into the Banks Treasury because the banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remains
unclaimed for a certain period of years, the money
will be transferred into the Banks Treasury as an
unclaimed debt. For your partictipation in the
business, 20% of the funds will be yours, 75% will be
mine, while 5% will be for any expenses incurred
during the transaction.
Please reach me at the above e-mail address, if
willing to do business with me. I could have done this
deal all alone but because we are not allowed to
operate a foreign account here, i decided to look for
a good,and God fearing person to help,and benefit with
me.

I will stop from here,and awaiting your response as
soon as possible.
My best Regard.

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Azeez Ahmed




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