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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: "Hassan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <huseein-hassan@live.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:23:04 +0100
Subject: i solicit your confidence

Good day,
I must solicit your confidentiality and assure you that I am contacting you in
good faith and this proposal will be of mutual benefit. I know that this an
unsolicited way to start a relationship. However, this correspondence is
unofficial and private, and should be treated as such.

I need your assistance to stand as a beneficiary to the sum of
six millions five hundred united state dollars lying down unclaimed in a bank, what
really happened is that during the course of our auditing last week, I
discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in the year
1998 and since 1999 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 [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do
not remmit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account Mr. Toni Chaote an American and great
industrialist and a resident of Visalia California, who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed,
including his wife and three daughter leaving nobody to claim the money.
Ever since his death the money has been lying unclaimed. Now i need your
co operation to claim this money because only someone from foreign country
can stand as the beneficiary.And the Banking law stipulates that any money
lying unclaimed for ten years will be transferred to federal government
suspent account with central bank of Nigeria.

Please i need your assistance to achieve this great chance because i do
not wish this money transferred to Central bank of Nigeria because it will
be shared among the top directors .



I will provide you with more details of this transaction and how to proceed
when you respond to the email.
you can contact me on my phone number 234-8060698578

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Barrister Hussein Hassan
Senior Advocate,
International Legal Practitioner.

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