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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: "DR. NOSA OSASO" <nosaosasoubn2007@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:19:20 -0700
Subject: PROPOSITION

FROM NOSA OSASO
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
Cowrie House,
Victoria Island,
Lagos.

Dear Sir/Madam,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP
SECRET.Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make
anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will
be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact
you by
e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction. Let me start
by first
introducing myself properly to you. I am DR.NOSA OSASO, a
Manager at
the UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, Lagos. I came to know of you
in my
private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle
a very
confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a
huge sum of
money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I
am not too
really sure if you are my long lost contact whom I am trying
to reach,
but in anyway, please do take this message with a good heart
and
report back to me if you are not the person I think you are.
I would
explain more latter.

THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, late Engineer SANN CLARKE, an Oil Merchant /
contractor
with the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death
three years
ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at UNION
BANK, Lagos,
and had a closing balance of USD$27.5M (Twenty Seven Million
and Five
hundred thousand,United States Dollars) which the bank now
unquestionably expects to
be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or
alternatively be donated to a discredited trust
fund for alms and ammunition at a military war college here
in Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts has been made by the UNION BANK to
get in
touch with any of the CLARKE family or relatives but all
have proved
to no avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of
not going
to be able to locate any of late Engr. SANN CLARKE's next of
kin (he
had no known wife and children) that the management under
the
influence of our Chairman, board of directors, that an
arrangement for
the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMED" and then be subsequently
donated
to the Trust Fund for Alms and war in Africa and the world
in general.

In order to avert this negative development, myself and some
of my
trusted colleagues here at the bank now seek for your
permission to
have you stand as late Engr. SANN CLARKE's next of kin so
that the
fund, USD$27.5M USD would be subsequently transferred and
paid into
your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All
documents and
proves to enable you get this fund would be carefully worked
out and
we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. For your
assistance,
your commission would be 20%. 70% will be for myself and my
colleagues
for investment purposes in your country and the remaining
10% will be
set aside to off set any expenses that would come
up in the course of the transfer.

If this proposal is OK. by you and you do not wish to take
advantage
of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then
kindly
get back to me and furnishing me with your most
confidential telephone and fax numbers and exclusive e-mail
so that we
can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Regards,
DR. Nosa Osaso
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.
LAGOS - NIGERIA

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