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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: "Dr Idris Suleman" <idris_suleman35@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: idris_suleman11@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:42:27 +0100
Subject: I AM WAITING YOUR URGENT RESPONE


DR IDRIS SULEMAN
HEAD OF ARCHIVES /RECONCILIATION
CITI TRUST BANK NIG. LTD.
12 MOLAR STREET
VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS
Lagos State.
TELLS PHONE: +234-1-4732762


Dear Good Friend,

I come to you with great honour and respect as I beg for your permission and conscent to introduce myself by the grace  of the Almighty God who gave me the opportunity to contact you this day.

I am,Dr.Idris Suleman,the Chief Accountant Citi Trust Bank Of Nigeria.I got your address while searching for trustworthy individuals in various countries. ln my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of $12.5million US dollars in an account that belongs to Engr.Steeve Harper,one of our foreign customers who died in an auto accident with his family in Nigeria.
 
Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come to our bank and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as a next of kin or relative to he deceased as indicated in our anking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed relatives died in a plane crash leaving no relative behind to claim the fund.
 
It is upon this discovery that l am in my department decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relative to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to go into our bank treasury as an unclaimed fund.
 
The banking law and guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after NINE years,the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed funds. The request for a foreigner as a relative for this claim is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Africa cannot claim this fund as next of kin.
 
I agreed that 50% of this money will be your's as the foreign partner who will assist for expenses incurred during the transaction and 50% will be for me.There after,l  will visit your country for disbursement of the percentages as indicated above.
 
 If you are interested to assist in this transaction, please do call me now on  my mobile number +234-1-4732762.Please this transaction is risk free and you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for transfer. Remember  I am still working at the bank, means I have all the information to back up ok. I am waiting urgent reply.


Yours Faithfully,
 
Dr.Idris Suleman
Chief Accountant (CTB)
Private Number:+234-1-4732762



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