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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: <mrsonabel101@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:07:35 -0500
Subject: Trust

Dear Friend,
I am Mr Son Abel Accounts supervisor with standard Bank plc London. I

have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On

June 6, 1999, a Foreign Diamond consultant/contractor with the London

Diamond Corporation, Mr.Elliod Andy made a numbered time (Fixed)

Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at SD$22,000,000.00,

(Twenty-two Million Dollars) in my branch.Upon maturity, I sent a

routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After

a month, I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract

employers, the London Diamond Corporation that Mr. Mr.Elliod Andy died

from a rebel attack. On further investigation, I found out that he

died without
making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was

fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.

Mr.Elliod Andy did not declare any kin or relations in all his

official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of USD$22,000,000.00 has carefully/confidentially been moved

out of my bank to a private organization in Europe for safekeeping. No

one can ever come forward to claim it. According to London Law, at the

expiration of 8 (eight) years,the money will revert to the
ownership of the London Government if nobody applies to claim the

fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I want you as a Foreigner to

stand in as the rightful owner of the money. I deposited it in a

private organization in trunk box though the private organization does

not know the contents of the box as I tagged them to be photographic

materials for export. In the circumstance, I want to present you as

the rightful owner of the boxes in the private organization so

that you can be able to claim them with the help of my attorney. This

is simple.I would like you to provide immediately your full names and

address as well as your direct telephone and fax number so that the

Attorney will prepare the necessary documents which will put you in

the right place as the owner of the box. The money will be moved out

for us to your country and share in the ratio of 80% for me and 20%

for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for
this transaction will be done by the Attorney and this will guarantees

the successful execution of this transaction on your behalf, please

reply immediately via my email address. Upon your response, I shall

then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will

help you understand the transaction and swing into the necessary

action while I confide in you hoping you will not betray me at last.

For security reason please reply me through my private email address

as follow
Thanks and God bless
Mr.Son Abel


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