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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: "MUHAMMAD NATHANIEL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mnathmnath1926@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 21:27:19 +0800
Subject: Dear Partner

Attn Sir

My name is Muhammad Nathaniel I am a citizen of United State's of America and the former chief accountant of SPDC Corporation, a multinational oil corporation operating from London-England, UK,were i am based.

I am seeking your assistance to retrieve the sum of (Ten Million United States Dollars) This money was acquired from an over invoice of an oil contract done in Saudi Arabia,the total sum for the contract was $520,000,000.00,but as the former chief accountant with one of my colleague Mr James E. Bennett who is now late I was able to over invoiced the contract with an additional $15M, my reason for this is because I have been cheated out of my entitlements before i retired by this company for too long simply because I am not a British Citizen,right now the $15M is well secured with Safe Deposit House here in Europe.

The Deposited Funds is well placed in a security Box in this security Company safe Vault,I am seeking your assistance to stand as the beneficiary to receive this Funds which I want to invest once I return back,I have the deposit documents with me,all we need to do is to change the beneficiary status of this deposit to your name and have it delivered to your home.

I am ready to give you 30% of the total sum if you are ready to partner with me,there is no risk involved as the box will only need your involvement to claim or stand as the beneficiary.

Please, I need your urgent response before my plans to leave the company as one of the directors is discovered.Please if you are not willing and interested in helping me kindly delete this e-mail from your computer and pretend you never got it.

Best regards,
Dr Muhammad M.Nathaniel
One of the board of Directors
Direct Tel: +447045750435

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