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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: "Segun" <segun@oicexchange.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:05:07 +0200
Subject: Hello Friend

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X-Mailer: Skali Mail Version 1.1
X-Comment: This message was sent from 192.116.105.86
Content-Type: text/plain
Message-ID: <108133585702@db.oicexchange.com>

Dear Friend,

It is indeed my pleasure to write to you this letter, which i believe will be a suprise to you, as we are both complete strangers.

My name is Mr Segun Agbaje, the Deputy Managing Director of
COMMERICAL BANK OF AFRICA. I am writing in respect of a foreign
customer of my bank with account number 14-255-2004/utb/t who
perished in a plane crash Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole
passengers aboard on August6,1997.

Since the demise of this our customer,I personally has watched with
keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as
no one has come to claim his funds of USD.28.5m,[twenty eight
million five hundred thousand united states dollars] which has been
with my branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as
the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the
banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Six
years,because money will be recalled to the bank treasury as
unclaimed after this period. I will give you 25% of the total.

Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail
the application, bank's fax number and the next step to take. I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities
for fund transfer can be finalizedwithin five banking days, after
you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail to my private
mail box,(segunbank@netscape.net) signifying your decision.Including
your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.

Respectfully submitted,

Mr Segun Agbaje










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