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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?James=20Olumide?= <jamesolumide02@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: james_olumide045@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:28:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From: The Desk of Mr James Olumide.


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : jamesolumide02@yahoo.fr



From: The Desk of Mr James Olumide.

The Personal Acoount officer

The General Manager of Standard Trust Bank Plc

E-mail: james_olumide045@yahoo.com.sg

Dear Sir/ma,

I am Mr. James Olumide , accountant for foreing bill of exchange operation department of the Standard Trust Bank Plc here in Nigeria. I am writing following the impressive information about you through an internet geonological research.


In my department, we discovered along term deposited fund of { $25.M } Twenty Five Million United States Dollars in an account which belong to a foriegn customer Late Engr ALLAN. who died along side with his nuclear family in a plane crash on December 26th 2003 in a neighbouring country named Republic of Benin in the city of Cotonou and since the bank management received the information about his death. The management have been expecting his next of kin to come over for his or her claim as the huge fund can not be release unless somebody applies for it legally as the beneficiary / next of kin to the deceased / fund as indicated in our banking guide.


Unfurtunately all efforts to locate the next of kin to the deceased by the bank management proved abortive.Now as the personal accountant to the deceased, after much official enquiry / verification through the deposit files of the deceased, I was able to realise that his supposed next of kin died along side with him at the plane crash on December 26th 2003.


The banking law and guideline act 00.02 of the foreign beneficiary fund release stipulates that if such fund remain uncliamed after the exsisting period of four years, as the fund shall be automatically transfered into the national treasury account as uncliamed bill. As the personal accountant to the deceased, I therefore decide to make business with you by releasing the fund { $25 Million } to you as the next of kin to the deceased for safe keeping of the fund / subsequent disbursement as I do not want the fund to be transfered into the national treasury as unclaimed fund.


Note : This transaction is 100% risk free as I have all required information / documents which shall aid the total accomplishment of this fund repatriation into your personal account as the beneficiary to the deceased. Upon the confirmation of your positive response, I shall send to you by fax / mail the commencement step, full information of the bank and that of the deceased for instant inception of this transaction.


The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is highly occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as a next of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 50% that is negotiable of this money would be for you as foreign partner. Thereafter I will visit your country for the disbursement / investing our share according to the percentages indicated. Please be honest to me. I look forward to your positive response.


Please note that you are not to appear in person as everything regarding this project will be strictly handled.


NOTE: Make sure you reply to my email through this address below for confidential communication that this transaction require.


Best regards

Mr.James Olumide

Personal Account Officer

Standard Trust Bank Plc.

E-mail: james_olumide045@yahoo.com.sg



- James Olumide


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