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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: "Abdullah Al Hosani" <abdullah.alhosani03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: abdullah.alhosani14@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:23:11 -0600
Subject: RE:FUND TRANSFER

From: Mr Abdullah Al Hosani
MANAGER National Bank of Abu Dhab
Khalidiya Branch Abu Dhabi,
Email:abdullah.alhosani14@gmail.com




Dear Friend,

This letter must come to you as a surprise, but I believe it is only a day
that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am
pleased to get across

to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal;I Am asking for
your assistance in this urgent matter, requiring trust and
confidentiality,
I am Abdullah Al Hosani, the Branch manager, National Bank of Abu Dhab
Khalidiya Branch Abu Dhabi U.A.E (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES), married with four
children. I am

writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out
this business opportunity in my department,

On June 6, 1999, an America Oil consultant/contractor with Petroleum
Corporation, Mr. Luther Fraatz, made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for
twelve calendar months,

Valued at US$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
)in my branch upon maturity. I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got

no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from
his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Luther Fraatz,
died in the plane

crash On October 31, 1999, (an Egyptian Boeing 767 Flight 990) with other
passengers on board as you can confirm it yourself via the website below

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/egyptair-passenger-list-released-1.180035
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/egyptair-passenger-list-released-1.180035

Most astonishing of my discovery was that, all records bear no next of
kin, meaning no member of Mr. Luther Fraatz family knows about the deposit
therefore ,no member

of his family will ever come forward to claim the money, In order for the
bank not to transfer the said sum of sixteen Million, Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars

($16,500,000.00) as unclaimed funds to the emirates treasury account, the
above stated funds most be claimed immediately by somebody standing in as
late Mr. Bernard

Poirier, Next of Kin, because According to (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LAW), at
the expiration of (fifteen) years; the money will revert to the ownership
of the (UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES) Government if nobody applies to claim the fund,

This revelation is only known to me because I was his personal account
officer before I was posted to become the branch manager , now I seek your
collaboration to act

as next of kin to late Mr.Luther Fraatz to claim the funds and move them
into useful investments, we shall split the cash between our self upon the
confirmation of the

money into your account, I am ready to offer you 35% of the total fund and
60% for me while 5% will be set aside for any expenses might occur during
the transaction,

Please note that by the virtue of my position in the bank , I have worked
out the perfect modality as well as I shall provide the relevant
information's and documents

for the successful claim and transfer of the funds in the account that
will be provided by you, I can not stand in the forefront of this
transaction because I work

with the bank ,that is why I have come to you, for assistance be rest
assured that this project involve no risk to you, upon the receipt of your
acceptance mail ,I

will like you to provide me with the following details, bellow to my
private email :

1) Your direct mobile/fax number.
(2) Your name and country resident address.
(3) Your private E-mail box.

Then I shall furnish you with due process of concluding this transaction
Without any delay.
Regards
Mr Abdullah Al Hosani




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