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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?maher=20steit?= <maher_steit_labib1965@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: maher_steit1965@123mail.cl
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 02:40:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Maher Labib Abou Steit


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: maher_steit_labib1965@yahoo.com.mx

From: Maher Labib Abou Steit

General Manager, UBE.

United Bank of Egypt.

106, Kasr El-Aini st,

Po box 85 Magles El-Shaab

Cairo center building

Cairo, Egypt

Telex: 20060/20061 ube un

Email:maher_steit1965@123mail.cl

Date:3rd June, 2006


Dearest


Compliments of the season


I am the manager United Bank of Egypt (UBE). in my bank I discovered an

abandoned sum of $33.3musd (thirty three million three hundred thousand

U.S.dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign

customer, by name, Mr. Bob Robert Chapman, African area director for

Wycliffe bible translators international, who died along with his

wife,Ruth Chapman, in January 2000 in a Kenyan plane crash in the coast

of Abidjan, Ivory coast.


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his

next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release

it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the

deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.


Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin died along with

him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is

therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make business with you

and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation of the

deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming

for it and I don't want this money to go into federal government

account as unclaimed bill. The banking law and the guidelines here

stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six years the

money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is

occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an

Egyptian cannot stand as next of kin for a foreigner. It is agreed that

a certain percentage of this money will be for you as my foreign

partner.


Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the

percentage agreed.


Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as

arranged. you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin

of the deceased indicating your bank account number and location

wherein the money will be remitted.


Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the text of the

application.


As soon as you receive this letter, you should contact me through my

SECURITY e-mailaddress,maher_steit1965@123mail.cl

Trusting to hear from you immediately.


Yours faithfully

Maher Labib Abou Steit

General Manager, UBE.


Note: all transactions will be through email as calls are strictly

monitored down hear in the complex.

- maher steit


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