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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: "ambutic pasby" <ambutic@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:33:19 +0100
Subject: very urgent and private


Dear VICTIM-FULLNAME,
How are you today and how is your family?
I sincerely hope that you are all fine.Thank you very much for your email
being reply to my earlier mail to you about the account balance of
$13,000,000.00 to the credit of the late Mr Fredrick VICTIMNAME who used to work
with ESCRAVOS GAS PROJECT PHASE 3B IN NIGERIA untill his untimely death with
his wife Mrs Magaret VICTIMNAME and their two children Shik and John VICTIMNAME on
December 2nd 2002.

Mr VICTIMNAME and his family were Pakistan Citizens but lived in Nigeria.

After a desperate search for any family member of the late Mr VICTIMNAME through
the Pakistan High Commission failed and every other effort also failed i
decided to search the internet for a possible trustworthy,reliable,sincere
and honest person that could stand in as next of kin to the deceased Mr
Fredrick VICTIMNAME so that the account closing balance could be released and
transferred to the bank account you will nominate on a share percentage
basis to avoid this account closing balance from being paid back into
Government Treasury as unclaimed bill.This was why i contacted you.

If you confirm your capability to do this,i will send to you our bank's form
for account closure by next of kin to a deceased depositor which you will
complete and return to our bank manager for processing and approval.

Please be informed that this transaction when started is expected to be
completed within 10 working days andi will come to your country for
disbursement and possible investment with your advise,supervision and
control.Please indicate your position in this matter immediately and also go
ahead to open the bank account without delay.Every legal modalities have
been made and i am assuring and also re-assuring you that this transaction
is 100% risk free as all arrangements have been made for a hitch free
transaction.

For us to commence this operation,i will like you to send to me the
following information:
1.Your full names and address
2.Your bank detailed information eg,account number and banker's name
3.Sort or swift code
With all these information,this will enable me to file in all necessary
applications for payment approvals with your name as the beneficiary/next of
kin to the deceased depositor.

You can also feel very free to call me for explanation of any matter that
you may not understand.My direct cell phone is+234-80-2083-6505

Expecting to hear from you
Yours sincerely
Ambutic Ezems

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