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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: "James Peter" <james_peter11@msn.com>
Reply-To: james_peter@wanadoo.es
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:51:40 +0000
Subject: Classified-Proposition

Dear Friend,

IMPERATIVE AND PRIVATE.
I am contacting you on a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a
deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:
We discovered an abandoned sum of £26.000, 000, 00 (Twenty-Six Millions
British Pounds) in an account that Belongs to one of our client Hatem Kamil
Abdul Fatah who was the deputy governor of Baghdad in Iraq and also business
man made a numbered fixed deposit for 12 calendar months, with a value of
Twenty Six millions British Pounds only in my branch. Upon maturity several
notices were sent to him, even in the first quarter of this year. Again
another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later
found out that the Deputy Governor has been assassinated in Baghdad.

The websites below is a proof and verification of the news about his death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3970619.stm
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=6979 After further
investigation it was also discovered that Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of
his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my
office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, £26. 000,
000, 00 is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim
it.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a
neutral person to stand in as the next of kin to Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah so
that you will be able to receive his funds with my aid as the insider. We
cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon
this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of
kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us
for the funds (£26.000, 000, 00) to be released in your favor as the
beneficiary's next of kin. It may Interest you to know that we have secured
from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of
our mutual Business Endeavor by furnishing me with the following;

1. Your name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate
Departments for necessary approvals in your favor before the transfer can be
made. We shall be compensating you with 40%on final conclusion of this
project, while the rest shall be for us. If this proposal is acceptable by
you, please response immediately, I await your urgent response in this my
private box.
Best regards,
Mr. James Peter.


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