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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: "ABRAHAM OKON" <abrahamokon@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:35:59 +0000
Subject: YOUR iNHERITANCE

Dear Beneficiary,

With all due respect to your personality,I reguest that you do not feel
disturbed as i know that business of this magnitude will surely make one
apprehensive.

I write to solicit your utmost onfidence,knowing too well that we have
neither known or met ach other before,but because you and tha late MR
HAMILTON CREEK are from the same country.Having searched through the
internet, from where i got your email address,I hereby reguest that you
become the next of kin to the late customer of our bank, late MR HAMILTON
CREEK , who died here in West Africa and abandoned a fixed deposit of Nine
million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars($9,500,000.00)without a
specified Next of Kin to inherit the deposit as at the time of his
death.(may be he did this because of the fact that he was into crude oil
deals called "oil bunkering" here in west Africa).

My name is MR ABRAHAM .I am an accountant and the accounting officer to the
Late MR HAMILTON CREEK in ACCESS BANK PLC.

In the financial law of the federal Republic of Nigeria, the Holding bank is
required to repatriate any abandoned fund by a foreigner if nobody comes to
claim the said fund after four (4) years of the confirmation of the death of
the depositor.

For the past four years, all efforts of our customer service Department to
trace any relative of the Late MR HAMILTON CREEK has proved abortive.I do
not want this fund to go into the hands of our corrupt government
officials,who have embezzld our national funds all these years.

My interest in this abandoned deposit is as follows:
1)To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt
government officials of President Obasanjo.
2)To make you the next of kin to the late MR HAMILTON CREEK and whom He has
willed the said deposit before his death.
3)To ensure that the deposited funds is tranfered to you as your
INHERITANCE.
4)T ensure that my own share is invested wisely in your country in any
viable area of investment.
Bear in mind tha the entire transaction will be risk free and legitimate
since the unds will be coming to you as your INHERITANCE.if this proposal is
accepted by you,respond to me ASAP but if not acceptedby you ,do not take
advantage of it to betray me.

Remember that doing Business over the Internet could sometimes be
unconfidential.so if acceptable by you,send me your private telephone and
fax numbers for me to call you for more details.
God Bless
MR ABRAHAM OKON
(ACCOUNTANT ACCESS BANK PLC,Lagos).

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