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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: ssmbh ssmbh <ssmbh31@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ssmbh2008@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:40:14 +0000
Subject: Reply asap




Attention Dear,
My name is Ahmed Khalil, I'm 20 Years old from Sudan. My father is
Abdelrahim Khalil we both lived here in Lagos Nigeria. I'm the senior
and the most Elder son of Abdelrahim Khalil who was involved in the
11th Sept.2001 Terrorist attack in America. Sir, It happened that after
the death of my father, we the family of Khalil have been having
problem with my uncles who bent on taking share of the money my father
deposited in the lions bank plc.[A/C NO 3461071392] The recent case
was
on sunday 21 january 2007 when three of my uncles came and beat me up
with my little ones and my mum could not do ant thing cos she is
old[68yrs now]. I came across names from my father's Business Diary
Book
as I was going through it. My purpose of sending this e-mail to you is
to ask you to assist me by providing your foreign bank account number
as
I have dicussed it with my mum so that the money could be move out of
Nigeria since the bank manger adviced us after the inccident of the 21
january that the best thing for us to do is to look for some one that
will assist us to receive the money over there as he is willing to
co-operate with us. we are preparing to leave Nigeria in the next three
Months. My father was into Import and Export of finished Goods here in
Nigeria before his untimely death . He has an account with Lions Bank
of
Nigeria Plc with the account number 3461071392 under account name
Abdelrahim Khalil Import and Export Ltd. Has 7.8 Million Pounds in the
Foreign Deposit account with the above named Bank. the whole trouble
started when I went to the bank with my uncle and I requested the
bank
Manager to sign out some amount for us, but he said that the money is
in
a foreign deposit account that all I need to do is to get a foreign
account number out side Nigeria so that they can issue out the Transfer
note to us through Central Bank of Nigeria. Therefore I'm begging to
provide us with your foreign account so that the Lion Bank can release
the 7.8 Million Pounds to us. As the Eldest son of my father I'm
willing
to go into any business relationship with you by investing the money in
your Company. Please Sir, I should need an urgent reply back via my
email address You can also email me via ssmbh01@yahoo.com
Thanks and may God bless you.
Ahmed Khalil For the Family of Abdelrahim Khalil Ltd
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