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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: ssmbh ssmbh <ssmbh5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ahmedkhalil206@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:14:47 -0600
Subject: Reply asap



Attention Dear,May name is Ahmed Khalil, I’m 20 Years old from Sudan. My father is Abdelrahim Khalil we both lived here in Lagos Nigeria. I’m the senior and the most Elder son of Abdelrahim Khalil who was involved in the 11th Sept.2001 Terrorist attack in America. Sir, It happened that after the death of my father, we the family of Khalil have been having problem with my uncles who bent on taking share of the money my father deposited in the lions bank plc.[A/C NO 3461071392]The recent case was on sunday 21 january 2007 when three of my uncles came and beat me up with my little ones and my mum could not do ant thing cos she is old[68yrs now].I came across names from my father’s Business Diary Book as I was going through it. My purpose of sending this e-mail to you is to ask you to assist me by providing your foreign bank account number as I have dicussed it with my mum so that the money could be move out of Nigeria since the bank manger adviced us after the inccident of the 21 january that the best thing for us to do is to look for some one that will assist us to receive the money over there as he is willing to co-operate with us.we are preparing to leave Nigeria in the next three Months. My father was into Import and Export of finished Goods here in Nigeria before his untimely death . He has an account with Lions Bank of Nigeria Plc with the account number 3461071392 under account name Abdelrahim Khalil Import and Export Ltd. Has 7.8 Million Pounds in the Foreign Deposit account with the above named Bank. the whole trouble started when I went to the bank with my uncle and I requested the bank Manager to sign out some amount for us, but he said that the money is in a foreign deposit account that all I need to do is to get a foreign account number out side Nigeria so that they can issue out the Transfer note to us through Central Bank of Nigeria. Therefore I’m begging to provide us with your foreign account so that the Lion Bank can release the 7.8 Million Pounds to us. As the Eldest son of my father I’m willing to go into any business relationship with you by investing the money in your Company. Please Sir, I should need an urgent reply back via my email address or you can contact me on our phone number; +234-80-61365016You can also email me via ssmbh01@yahoo.comThanks and may God bless you. Ahmed Khalil For the Family of Abdelrahim Khalil Ltd
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