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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: "from ben jack" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <benjack6000@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:16:16 +0200
Subject: RE-CITIBANK DEAL..

From;Mr Ben Jack,

CITIBANK NA LAGOS NIGERIA.

I am Dr Ben Jack Director of Private Accounts, CITIBANK BANK PLC

WEST AFRICA SUB-REGIONAL OFFICE IN NIGERIA, it's just my urgent

need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this

Confidential business transaction despite the fact we do not

know ourselves too well.

I am a banker by profession from CITI BANK PLC LONDON and

currently holding the post of Director of Private Accounts, CITI

BANK PLC. I Was redeployed from london to head the sub-regional

office in Africa and have a confidential opportunity of

transferring the left over Account ($10.5 Million USD) belonging

to my late clients Steve Moore a top business tycoon, who died

along with his entire family on Egyptian plane crash on their

way from USA to Cairo.
Read website

Story.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990


However the purpose of contacting you is the funds in Question

have stayed in this account for over many years and there is

tendency right now by the bank Management to declared it

unclaimed funds and push it to their treasury account where the

bank
will automatically inherit the money. Therefore i am contacting

you to cooperate with me for us to claim this funds now and use

it for investment since i have all the details of this account

and with my position in office i and one other partner can

confidently perfect the transfer of this funds through Apex bank

of Nigeria CBN to any bank you will nominate to receive the

transfer. if accepted, We intend introducing you as one of the

relation of late Steve Moore entitled to claim the late relative

estate.If you are interested to partner with us to realize this

transaction we will give you 30% of this fund and the

transaction will last for 7 days please get back to me for

further information and you are being assured no risk is

involved.

I Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards


Mr Ben Jack.


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