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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: "yuriy onufreiyiv" <yuriy7570@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:36:01 +0000
Subject: Hello

Dear Sir,
I am the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in the United
Kingdom
During the course of our auditing, I discovered floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in since 1998 and 2000, nobody has operated this account
again. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a great farmer and he died
in 2000. No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it,
the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well that until his death he was the Executive Director of AGRI-GOLD ARK.
(PTY) SOUTH AFRICA. We will start the first transfer with Six million GBP
[6,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your
side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the rest of the amount to your
account that you will provide. The total amount involved is (16 Million)
Sixteen million GBP only.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person in London but can only be approved to any
foreigner whom the bank will believe was a partner to the deceased and in
similar business.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I am
contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform
you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax
number so that we can discuss other details.
Kindly respond if you are interested in this proposal so that I can start
normalizing the documents in your favor with my influence and my position in
the bank as I am due for retirement soon.
To build confidence you can call me for heart to heart discussion through my
security encrypted line: + 44 792 229 7876 ,+44 702 403 5155 or email
yuriyonufreyiv@mail.com , which I secured for the confidentiality and safety
of this business as you know that this business is confidential. I will use
my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer
of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments.

I look forward to your earliest reply.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Yuriy Onufreyiv

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