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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr Jerri L. Putra" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jer.putra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:24:14 +0700
Subject: For Your Kind Attention

Greetings,

Please I am highly delighted to be in contact with you and sorry for the embarrassment this mail might be to you as we have not meet nor had any previous correspondences but was borne out of my sincere desire to establish a business/mutual relationship with you.

My name is Jerri L.Putra, a banker by profession and currently the Executive auditor with a prime bank here in Indonesia. I decided to contact you for this financial transaction worth Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$7.5m) for our present and future success. This is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our foreign customers who unfortunately lost his life with his wife and only daughter in Tsunami disaster few years ago.

Meanwhile i was very fortune to come across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customer’s files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and auditing.

Unfortunately I learn't that his supposed next of kin being his daughter died along with him in the Tsunami disaster leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make the deal with you and transfer this money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.All the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations, which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 3 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund. However, it is not authorized by the rules guiding our bank for a citizen of my country to make the claim of the fund unless you are a foreigner no matter the country. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the next of kin to the deceased.

Note that in a business of this nature, the bank do not want to know your difference between the deceased country, religion or believe because our bank inheritance law is against that, So it is a preference for us to achieve this success without any problem.On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to {36%} Thirty Six Percent of the total sum as gratification, {56%} Fifty Six Percent will be for me being the pioneer of the business while the rest {8%} eight Percent will be shared to respectable Organizations such as Charity, Motherless Babies Homes, and helpless disabled people around us in the World.

I need your urgent response and include your Full Names, Contact Address and private telephone/mobile numbers for easy communication.Please reply if you can be trusted in this deal through my personal email: jerri.putra01@gmail.com for more details.

I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely,

Jerri L.Putra
jerri.putra01@gmail.com

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