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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: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:23:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONTACT ME FOR MORE DETAILS.



Dear Friend,
 
Greetings to you and your family, 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 body cares to ask me because
the money was too much for them to control.
 
As I am sending this message
to you, I was able to divert five  Million five Hundred United State Dollars
($5.5M) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank.
 
Now the
bank is very anxious to know who is the real beneficiary of the funds because
they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It has been more than Eight
years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer
funds overseas,as majority of them are not in power again, because their tenure
has expired. The $5.5 Million Dollars has been lying in the bank as unclaimed
fund.
 
I will soon retire from the bank and without wasting time i will
like the fund to be release into your account.
 
So that i will come to
your country for the sharing of the fund, The money will be shared 60% for me
and 40% for you .There is no one that is going to ask you any question about the
funds because everything is well secured by me.
 
If you are interested
in this transaction, do not fail to reply me back, but if you are not interested
delete my message from your box ok.
 
Hoping to hear from you soon.

 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Mr.Solomon Seydou.
 




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