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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: Dr James Elumelu <drjelum1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <drjameselumelu00@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:10:43 +0100
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL



36 BROAD STREET, MARINA LAGOS,NIGERIA TELEGRAM: UNION BANK BRANCHBIG, STRONG, RELIABLEE-mail:- drjameselumelu00@yahoo.com OURREF:UBN/435/xo/026Date: 28/8/2007 My Dear Friend, I am the Auditing and Accounts Operations Manager of Union Bank Nig.Plc(U.B.N) .In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of $26.000.000.00 (TWEENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers (Mr. Morris Thompson,) who died along with his entire family in February 2000 in a plane crash. For more information about the crash visit this site: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately we learnt that allhis supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in theplane crash. His younger brother was killed by hired assassin.please indicate yourinterest to assist me in converting this money for our mutual benefit .mail me today for more information and conditions of pour partnershipin the deal. Best regards,Dr.James Elumelu.Union Bank Nig.Plc(U.B.N) .
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