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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: WILLIAM SOLOMON <wilisolomon6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <williamslmn50@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:48:50 +0000
Subject: I Need your urgent response



Absa Bank South Africa (Rag No.1986/004794/06)
62, Empire Road Parkton 2193 P.0.Box 6005, Johannesburg 2000,
South/ Africa.

Attention: Sir/
I am Mr. Williams Solomon. A Staff of African Absa Bank South Africa (ABSA BANK) this Bank is also an affiliated to Barclays Bank London.

I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of (US$26,000,000.00) twenty Six Million United State Dollars ) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January- 31- 2000, including his wife and only daughter.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after 18 years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds. We agreed that 50% of this money would be for you as foreign partner, while 50% will be for me,. Please note that this transaction needs an absolutely trust and confidential. I need your telephone members/fax for urgent response.

Best Regards
Mr. Williams Solomon williamslmn50@gmail.com

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