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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: "danadams@terra.es" <danadams@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:52:10 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Hello


Greetings,

My name is Mr Daniel Adams of credit and foreign bills of Magnum Trust Bank Plc.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number is 14-255-2004/mtg/t who perished in a plane crash (Egypt Air Flight Boeing767-300ER) with the whole passengers aboard on October 31st 1999 in Nantucket, Massachusetts,USA.

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as none has come to claim his funds of USD.15.5M (Fifteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars)which has been with my branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than eight years, because money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through a trade journal after realizing that your name and country is similar to the deceased. I will give you 30%of the total.Upon the receipt of your response, I will let you know the next step to take after receiving your contact informations.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to the deceased. When you receive this letter.

Kindly send me an e-mail to signify your interest including your private tel/Fax numbers for quick communication and processing this transaction.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Daniel Adams.





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