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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mike Denoma" <mikedenoma_scb5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mikedenoma_scb@rediffmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:32:53 +0100
Subject: Waiting to hear from you

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK LONDON(UNITED KINGDOM)

54 Jermyn Street,SW1Y 6LX,London
Tel: +44-207-0601322
Office: +44-704-0119579
Fax: +44-207-5048147

Greetings,

I am Mike DeNoma, the Bank Manager of STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, 54 Jermyn
Street, SW1Y 6LX, London. I have an urgent and very confidential business
proposition for you.

On June 6, 1998, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH
PETROLUEM CORPORATION MR. KAZIM AL JIHADI,made a numbered time (Fixed
deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at US$29,500,000.00 (Twenty Nine
Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity in
2001, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply.After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that MR. KAZIM AL
JIHADI died as a result of torture in the hands of President Sadam Hussein
during one of his trips to his country Iraq. On further investigation, I
found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his
next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and
discovered that MR. KAZIM AL JIHADI. Did not declare any next of kin or
relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork
in my Bank.

This sum of US$29,500,000.00 has been floating as unclaimed since 2001 in my
bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones.
According to the British law at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money
will revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to
claim the fund and the eight years is the end of December 2006.

Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner
to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so
that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account. All
documents and proof to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked
out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandate to locate any of
the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that the business
is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me and for
investment purpose as I will leave London by the end of the year.

The sharing of the funds will be based according to agreement between {both
of us}. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message
in acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the
necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any
conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage
of the trust I have bestowed in you.

PLEASE, APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET IS
RISKY.ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL;

[1] NAME:..................................................
[2] CONTACT ADD:.................................
[3] AGE: ..................SEX:..........................
[4] TEL.............................. FAX:..............
[5] OCCUPATION STATUS: ..................
[6] COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:....................

God bless you as I await your response

Mr. Mike DeNoma.

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