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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: susan Nico <susannicol01@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent And Confidential Business Proposal








                                       VERY
URGENT



I am Mrs. Susan Nicol, a staff of Amalgamated

Bank
of South Africa {ABSA}.

I

have urgent and very confidential business proposal for you. An American


Gold

consultant/contractor with the South African Solid
Gold
Corporation, Mr.

William Bryant made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit
for
twelve calendar months,

valued at US$12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million United

States
Dollars) in my branch.

Upon maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got

no reply. After a
month, we
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his

contract
employers, the
South African Solid Gold Corporation that William

Bryant  died in a plane


crash in Alaska Airlines Flight 261(for more

information
about
this crash and people who died you can contact this website:



http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

.





On further investigation, I found out that he died without
making a
WILL and

all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I
therefore
made further

investigation and discovered that Mr. William Bryant  
did not
declare any kin

or relations in all his official documents, including
his
Bank
Deposit

paperwork in my Bank. This sum of
US$12,000,000.00 is
still sitting in my Bank

and the interest is being rolled over with
the
principal sum at the end of each

year. No one will ever come forward
to claim
it. According to Laws of Republic

OF SOUTH AFRICA, at the expiration
of 7
(Seven) years, the money will revert to

the ownership of the South

African
Government if nobody applies to claim
the

fund.



Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as
a
foreigner to stand in as

the next of kin to Mr. William Bryant   so
that the
fruits of this old man's

labuor will not get into the hands of some
corrupt
government officials. This is

simple, I will like you to provide
immediately
your full names and address so

that the attorney will prepare the
necessary
documents and affidavits that will

put you in place as the next of
kin. We
shall employ the services of an attorney

for drafting and
notarization of the
WILL and to obtain the necessary documents

and letter of
probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.



A bank
account in
any part of the world that you will provide will then

facilitate the
transfer
of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.

The money will
be paid
into your account for us to share in the ratio of 65%

for me and 35%
for you.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this

transaction
will be
done by the attorney and my position as a prominent

official of ABSA
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If

you are
interested, please reply immediately via the private email address

above.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and

relevant

documents that will help you understand the transaction.



Please
send me
your confidential telephone numbers for easy communication.

Please
observe
utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction

would
be most
profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance

to
invest
my share in your country.



Thank you for finding time to read this
as I
await your urgent reply via my

confidential email address:and
telephone
number

+0027 719-66-1922

susannicol1960@yahoo.com

Mrs. Susan Nicol                              










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