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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: "Frank Malu" <billmail@purcell.biz>
Reply-To: frankmalu221@handbag.com
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:36:15 +0000
Subject: I wait for your urgent respond

Good day!


With warm heart i offer my friendship, and greetings, and i hope this mail
meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might
seem to you, as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past,
i humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and immense
benefit.I must apologize to you for using this medium to communicate to
you about this project. i am sorry if this letter comes to you as an embarrassment
but be rest assured that your particulars of contact was given to me after
a due search, for reliable and capable foreigner that will handle confidentially
a transfer of huge sum of money, from union bank world plc, to a foreign
bank account.


I am Mr. Frank Malu an account officer to a foreign nationality a drilling
contractor,who used to work with Shell Development Company in Nigeria.On
19th August 2002, our late customer was involved in a ghastly motor accident
with his family northwards, during which he lost his life with his wife
and two children.Unfortunately, since we got the information
about his sudden death and the ugly incident that occurred, the management
of my bank made several enquiries on locating any of his extended relatives
who can stand as his next of kin to inherit an estate he left behind in
our custody but all these several efforts also proved unsuccessful and yielded
no results.as his personal account officer/mentor, i also made concerted
efforts aimed at locating a possible next of kin to my deceased client.
What i actually want to do is to present you to my bank as a next of kin
to the deceased client of mine to enable us place claims on a total sum
of (us$15,624,000.00), he deposited in my good bank for safe keeping before
his untimely death.


I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the stated sum he left behind
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. that
was why i decided to see if i can get anybody who has the same surname or
last
name with him via internet preferably some one of the same nationality with
him which i believe you have all the qualities we need.

This intension becomes very urgent due to the fact that the banking laws
and policy here in Nigeria stipulates and provides that if such funds remains
unclaimed after five years, that the bank is legally empowered to freeze
such accounts and the fund transferred into the federal reserve account
as unclaimed fund. Recently the Union Bank Nigeria plc issued a notice of
confiscation, as the account had remained unserviceable since 2002, i was
subsequently given a mandate of 21 official banking days to produce a next
of kin to the deceased or consider the account frozen. due to time constrain
and the fact that
i was unsuccessful in locating any relative to my client, i then wish to
seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased client
of mine. so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$15,624,000.00)
can be released through you for our general benefit instead of allowing
his sweat get lost in the bank.


Be informed that i have in my possession all necessary information that
we shall require to back-up our claims. i shall furnish you with further
details as soon as you have indicated your interest to render the desired
assistance. Feel free to contact me on my private email address stated as
follows,(frankmalu221@yahoo.com) to enable us commence actions on this deal
instantly.

Your genuine/honest cooperation is required to enable us achieve this purpose;
I guarantee that the entire transaction will be executed under a legitimate
arrangements.

Thanks,

Yours truly,

Mr.Frank Malu


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