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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?mrchris=20solomon?= <mrchrissolomon100@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: mrchrissolomon101@yahoo.de
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:22:11 +0530 (IST)
Subject: FROM MR CHRIS SOLOMON


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrchrissolomon100@yahoo.co.in

Dearest,


I am Mr Chris Solomon,a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the Foreign

Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am writing

this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this

business opportunity in my department.


We discovered an abandoned sum of$12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five Hundred

Thousand United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of

our foreign customers who died along with his entire family a wife and

two children in November 1999 in an auto crash.


Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to

come over and put claims for his money as the heir,because 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.Unfortunately,


Neither their family member nor distant relative has everappeared to

claim the said fund.It is in our banking guideline that if none of the

relatives come up to claim this fund after 6years of the death of the late

customer,the fund will be regarded as an unclaimed bill and will be

transferred to the bank's treasury account.



Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed

to make business with you and release the total amount into your account

as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained

account with our bank,otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks

treasury as unclaimed fund.


We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;30 %

for you as foreign partner,65 % for us the officials in my department and 5 %

for the settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us and you

during the course of this business.


Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my

colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75% we

intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of

recycling the fund.


To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately indicate

your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:


1)Your private telephone and fax number

2.Your full name


Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you and give you the

mordalities for the bank to approve you as the next of kin.


Note also, this transaction must be kept because of its nature.I look

forward to receiving your prompt response.Please get back to me at my

private email:mrchrissolomon101@yahoo.de


Best Regards


Mr Chris Solomon

Please reply me at my email address

:mrchrissolomon101@yahoo.de

- mrchris solomon


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