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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: <dr.danielnwabueze@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: s_e64@ymail.com
Date: 12 Aug 2010 23:27:20 +0200
Subject: SEEKING YOUR PROMPT COMPLIANCE;

Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


SEEKING YOUR PROMPT COMPLIANCE;

Hello,
I am Dr. Daniel Nwabueze, it's my pleasure to intimate you of a development in my bank, you

may not understand now but question and absolute comprehension of answers will give you

useful knowledge about the whole thing. I therefore believe that no matter your statutes

this information will definitely add add value to your life if you can follow this up to the

later.

I am an account manager to a Nigerian political diploma Mr. Jonathan Ekwelu from the south

eastern region of Nigeria who was apprehended in Cotonou the capital city of Benin Rep., for

alleged money laundry, but before his arrest he had already deposited some valuable amount

of money that ran into ($14.8M) fourteen million eight hundred thousand United State Dollars

only, in our bank for a couple of years now. Meanwhile, due to his incapacitation to run

this account, being under the punishment of his act which attracts a long-term imprisonment

in Nigerian law. He has asked me through the help of legal adviser to find a way of

transferring the fund to another valid account to enable his two kids to have access to the

this value.

Therefore if you can help to stand in as a next of kin to the man in question you definitely

will have an equal share of this fund with him as the money is transferred to your account.

You may not anticipate the possibility of it now but I assure you that I have what it takes

to do this with the help of a foreign partner, because the terms of agreement he signed with

our bank bears this code “SHOULD THERE BE ANY EMERGENCY THE FUND CAN BE PAIED TO A NEXT OF

KIN, SHOULD THE NEED ARISE” therefore as the account manager I decide who becomes the next

of kin. And it is diplomatically obvious that the beneficiary must not be from inside this

country Nigeria

I will give you every clue on how to get this done as soon as I receive your willing reply, Kindly respond to my private email (s_e64@ymail.com)for security and safety reasons.

Signed
Dr. Daniel Nwabueze



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