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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: James Ayite <james_ayite4@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: mr_jamesayite@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:46:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FOLLOW IT UP AND GET BACK TO ME OR CALL ON 00228 92 105 14


Attention.

My name is Mr James Ayite I am the audit manager of one of the prime banks here (name witheld for security reasons).

I have a business proposal in the tune of twenty one million, five hundred thousand united states dollars$21,500,000.00. This fund was discovered as unclaim fund with no tress of owner during my audit at the Bank for the second quater of the year ended june 2007.

After the successful transfer, we shall share in ratio of 35% for you and 65% for me, while 10 percent for the expence that may occur in the transction.

Should it interest you, please contact me through my email or request for my direct telephone number for a more verbal update as to enable us commence all arrangements and I will give you more information on how we would handle this project.

Please treat this business with utmost confidentiality and send me the following.

1 Full names,................................................
2 private phone number.......................................
3 current residential address, ..............................
4 Occupationn......................................
5 Age and Proffession.........................................

Kind Regards,
Mr.James Ayite .
E-mail..... mr_jamesayite@yahoo.com


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