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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: solomon seydou <solomon_seydou@voila.fr>
Reply-To: solomon.seydou@voila.fr
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 23:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT ME FOR MORE DETAILS.
























Dear Friend,
 
Greetings to you and your family my good friend, I am
the manager of bill and exchange in THE BANK,I have a business proposal of 5.5
Million United State Dollars, to be transfer to your account for investment in
your country ,if you are ready to assist me get back to me, i will give you full
details on how the fund will be transfer to you.
 
Be rest assure that
everything will be handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity
we cannot afford to miss, as it will make our family profit alot.
 
It has
been 10 years go, that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to
Launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers.

 
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa
was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the
continent.
 
The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer.
 

I acted as the Account
Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me
to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records
from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much
for them to control.
 

They laundered over
$69 Million Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you,I
was able to divert ($5.5million Dollars) to an escrow account belonging to no
one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the
funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.

 

It is more than Eight
years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer
funds overseas. The $5.5Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want to
retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to
enable  me share the proceeds with the receiver.The money will be shared 60% for
me and 40% for you .There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I
secured everything, if you are ready to assist me get back to me.

 

Hoping to hear from
you soon. 
 
Yours Faithfully,

 
Mr Solomon Seydou.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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