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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: "CHIROMA MUAZU" <chiroma002@student.com>
Reply-To: chiroma001@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:15:53 +0100
Subject: Urgent Business Proposal/Please get back to me


Dear Friend,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer fund to
overseas account the sum of ($25,500.000.00 USD)Twenty Five Million Five
hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from a Bank here in Nigeria.

I want to ask you, If you are capable to quietly provide either an existing
bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this
fund, even an empty account can serve to receive this fund,as long as you
will remain honest to me till the end for this important business,trusting
in you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am Mr Muazu Chiroma,I work with ECO BANK PLC During the course of our
auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1997 and since 1999 till date, nobody has operated on this account
again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that
the owner of the account died without a beneficiary to the account hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this fund out urgently it will
be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson of 61,of Fairbanks, Alaska
an American and a great
industrialist,business leader and largest private land owner resident of
Fairbanks City Alaska State who unfortunately lost his life in the plane
crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed, including his wife(Thelma
Thompson)and only daughter(Sheryl Thompson)leaving nobody to claim the
fund.No other person knows about this
account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account.

The total amount involve is Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars only [$25,500.000.00]and I wish to transfer this fund into a
safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any foreigner I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a
local person here, but to a foreigner who has information about the account,
which I shall give to you upon your positive response. I am revealing this
to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business,you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this
business. So, please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step
to take urgently.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee
that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official will destroy
all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving
no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all
legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total
amount, 50% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.Furthermore, the
transaction is Risk Free, there is no risk involved and the utmost paramount
of this transaction is Secret and Confidential due to my 15 years of
meritious service with the Eco Bank Plc.Which I dont want to jeopardize.

Note that,all correspondence should be by phone and by e-mail,I will be
extremely happy if you can abide to my instructions, I believe the sky shall
be our limit and I am willing to invest in your area of specialization at
the end of this transaction. Feel free to contact me directly via my email
address or telephone.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation

Mr Muazu Chiroma
Eco Bank Plc
E-mail:chiroma001@hotmail.com <E-mail%3Achiroma001@hotmail.com>
D/Line:+234-70-25638989


You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

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