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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: ALIYU MOHAMMED <aliyu_moh55@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <aliyu_moh@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:09:03 +0000
Subject: Altmost Secrecy And Sincerity





Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr. ALIYU MOHAMMED an employee at the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc Lagos,Nigeria. In my Department I discovered an abandoned sum of S$24.5M (Twenty four million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in November 2001 in an auto crash. Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and laws but unfortunately I learnt that his wife and only child died alongside with him at the auto crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as respect to the provision of a foreign account 5% for any expenses incurred, and 65% be for me. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice that all required arrangements have been made for the transfer, as i am the account officer in charge of the decease's account.I will need your response, in order to grant you access to the detailed facts and figures to this account. I will need a phone number to reach you. I look forward to an excellent business relationship with you, reply imediately to my alternative email:aliyu_moh@rediffmail.com Best Regards,ALIYU MOHAMMED.
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