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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: sufjb2 <sufjb2@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: vie, 03 dic 2004 07:05:35 -0300
Subject: HELLO



Attn:

Please I wish to humbly solicit for your assistance and business know-how to actualise this transaction but first, my name is Yussuf Jubril, and I am a banker with one of the banks in Lagos- Nigeria.
I have a business proposition below which I will like you to go through, make up your mind and give me an urgent reply.
On June 6 2001, Mr. R.B. Douglas, a rich farmer/businessman made a numbered time (Fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months, valued at US$6,320,000.00 (Six Million,Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) in my branch office. Upon maturity, a routine notification was sent to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his co-farmer that he died during the Zimbabwean land crises in South Africa during which some white farmers were killed.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and neither did he name his next of kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit form.
This sum of US$6,320,000.00 is still sitting in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. Uptill this time I am writing this to you no one has come forward to claim it.
Base on this premise therefore, my proposal is if you could stand-in as his next of kin being a foreigner to claim this fund ($6.320m), becasue according to my country law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

Upon your willingness to transact this with me you will be compensated with 35% of the total sum and please note that all necessary procedure to claim this fund will be legal as we shall employ the services of an attorney overhere whose professional fee will be my resposibility for drafting and notarization of the WILL.

I want to assure you that there is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney upon your instruction and my position as the regional branch manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. At the end of the deal you will be entiltle to 35% of the total amount.

On your return mail, I will provide you more details that will put you in a clearer picture of this pending transaction.
Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of
us and perhabs if you could provide me with your private phone number, I may as well call and discuss with you.

I await your return mail please.

My regards,

Y. Jubril
NB: Please reply via my private mailbox below
sufjb2@yahoo.co.uk


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